New community-based diabetes service to be launched in November

[Northerner]

An innovative new diabetes service aimed at tackling the condition through greater support for patients in the community is to be launched in November.

Surrey Downs Clinical Commissioning Group (SDCCG), which is responsible for buying healthcare for people living in Epsom, Ewell, Banstead, Mole Valley and East Elmbridge, has said the new service will enable patients to receive specialist treatments closer to home, within their own GP practices as well as at centres in Epsom, Leatherhead, Dorking and Molesey.

The roll-out of the new service will not affect the acute specialist diabetes care currently offered by clinics such as the John Kilner Diabetic Unit at Epsom Hospital.

http://www.epsomguardian.co.uk/news..._diabetes_service_to_be_launched_in_November/

 

[Catsmother]

Yippee! Local to me. I wonder how it will affect the service.
I have only seen my GP three times for blood test results in the year (yes - a whole year!) since I was diagnosed and I always have the feeling I now know more about the condition from all the useful information on this forum than she does. It would be good to have an opportunity to talk to someone about funding supplies for blood glucose testing. Perhaps the new setup will have a different view about the balance between paying now to save later.