Mental Health Awareness week commenced Monday Monday 15th May 2023. On the #diabeteschat we talked about mental health and peer support and were joined by the GBDoc community to discuss this very important topic. You can also listen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1OwGWwkqoQpGQ and use the hashtag - #diabeteschat
On the 1st of May 2023, Jacq Allan joined the #diabeteschat as our guest speaker. Jacqueline Allan is a diabetes psychologist who is also an associate lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London, and has been in this role since January 2022. She has worked at King's College London as a trainee clinical psychologist [...]
On the 24th of April 2023, Kes Fuller joined the #diabeteschat as our guest speaker. Kes originally wanted to join the Royal Navy as this had always been something that she wanted to do from her time with the sea cadets. As time went by Kes was unable to do this as she [...]
On the 13th of March 2023, Menopausal Mithersjoined the #diabeteschat as our guest speaker. In this podcast episode Kes and Mary hosted the lovely ladies from the Menopausal Mithers community. We spoke with Alex, Shiv, Anita, Sammy and Dawnie. We had a fantastic lived experience panel discussion taking about each others diabetes diagnosis and [...]
Dawnie joined the #diabeteschat and spoke with Tom & Kes about her diabetes journey and raised awareness about Menopause. In Part 1, Dawnie spoke with Tom and shared her Diabetes diagnosis, symptoms and diabetes journey and then shared with the #diabeteschat community - What is Menopause and what are the three stages of Menopause. [...]
Sam Brand is a British professional cyclist from the Isle of Man who was diagnosed with type 1 at 10 yrs old. Growing up Sam played many sports & competed in thriathlon, qualifying to race in the ITU World Championships. Sam was spotted by Team Novo Nordisk, a team whose athletes all live with [...]
DAFNE stands for ‘Dose Adjustment For Normal Eating’. It evolved from the education programme and insulin regimen developed in Germany by Michael Berger in the 1980’s and teams from Northumbria, Sheffield and Kings visited Germany together in the late 1990’s before bringing the programme back to the UK and adapting it for the [...]
Jack is a professional footballer who plays as a defender for League One club Bolton Wanderers, after joining them in the summer of 2022. Jack was born in Scotland, before moving to New Zealand and then over to Australia. Jack has played for 2 local teams in Australia; before moving back to his hometown [...]
Lis Warren has lived with type 1 diabetes since 1965. Having spoken to only a few others with diabetes in her first 4 decades with type 1, she’s now an active volunteer, patient advocate and a representative ‘expert by experience’ in NHS and diabetes research committees and with the diabetes charities. Lis believes that [...]
Salih Hendricks is 56 years old from Cape Town South Africa and has been a diabetes advocate for over 30 incredible years; diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes 40 years ago. Salih had his leg Amputation 2 years ago - 19 October 2020. Salih is a motivational speaker not only for his community; but for [...]
