Service: About us
The Diabetes Specialist Nursing Team provides a service for people with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes living in North Derbyshire.
Our specialist nurses support patients to improve their overall diabetes management and to reduce the short and long term complications.
The team will alter treatment programmes, initiate new treatments and advise and counsel patients on how to manage and live with their diabetes more effectively.
The Specialist Diabetes Service is a small service covering North Derbyshire offering specialist advice in the management of patients with diabetes. This includes specialist advice to children with diabetes. Support is also given in education and training to clinical staff and health care professionals working in the community.
Educational programmes
The team is also available as a resource to other practitioners, for advice, support and teaching either via the telephone or face to face.
We provide and support a number of educational programmes on diabetes management for people living with diabetes. Programmes include;
A range of courses and training are provided for practitioners and staff caring for people with diabetes, including;
- Understanding diabetes - Day course for unqualified staff
- Foundation diabetes - 2 day course for qualified staff
- Diabetes and learning disability - Day course for professionals and carers
Referrals can be for a variety of reasons, usually to improve the control of an individual's diabetes and can be made by any health professional; GP, professions allied to health or by individuals living with diabetes.
Patients will be seen either in a clinic setting local to them, or via a home visit (Home visits are for individuals who are unable to access clinics).
Clinics are held in the following locations;
- Goyt Valley
- Whaley Bridge
- Hope Valley
- Wheatbridge Clinic, Chesterfield
- Welbeck Road Clinic, Bolsover
- Castle Medical Centre, Bolsover.
- Cavendish Hospital
- Newholme Hospital
- Whitworth Hospital