Specialist Diabetes Service (East Riding)
Our specialist diabetes team in East Riding includes diabetes specialist nurses, assistants and administration. We work closely with local GP surgeries, community nursing teams and nursing and care homes in our area.
As a team we educate colleagues and patients about diabetes, healthy glucose management and about the variety of medications (both oral and injectables) used to treat diabetes.
We also support and educate people about lifestyle changes to improve general health and day to day wellbeing.
The diabetes specialist nurses also deliver regular Living with Diabetes courses in the area; your GP can refer you to these.
Referral Criteria – Patients aged 18 and over with an East Riding GP
- Insulin initiation and any insulin changes (dose adjustments or changes to insulin regimes)
- Modifying or reviewing diabetes medications and/or insulin regimes
- GLP-1 initiation and ongoing management
- Support with technology used in diabetes care, including CGM (continuous glucose monitoring)
- Hospital discharge after starting insulin, hypoglycaemia and DKA (diabetic ketoacidosis)
- Patients on triple oral therapy whose diabetes control remains poor.
Note – our service does not include patients under 18 years, gestational diabetes or patients using insulin pumps.
