Specialist Diabetes Service (East Riding)

Our Specialist Diabetes team in East Riding includes Diabetes Specialist Nurses, Diabetes assistant and Diabetes administration. We work closely with local GP surgeries, local Community nursing teams, and both nursing and care homes within 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 within diabetes.

We also support and educate about lifestyle changes that improve general health and day to day wellbeing.

The Diabetes Specialists’ nurses also deliver regular Structured Education Living with Diabetes courses within the area which is accessed through GP referral.

Referral Criteria – Patients aged 18 years and over with an East Riding GP

• Insulin initiation and any insulin changes (dose adjustments or changes to insulin regimes).
• Modifying/reviewing diabetes medications and/or insulin regimes.
• GLP-1 initiation and ongoing management.
• Support with technology used within diabetes care including CGM (continuous glucose monitoring).
• Hospital discharge post insulin initiation, 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 of age, Gestational diabetes and patients using insulin pumps.