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Norfolk and D care

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Phil65

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Might be relocating to Norfolk in the near future and was wondering what the diabetes care is like there?.....I don't know the area at all and assume that I would have to attend Norwich Hospital for my D care? Any advice would be great. 🙂
 
I live in norfolk and the care at the Elise B center is superb. Excellent full care team there and whats more they have an open clinic 9-10 monday to friday. Would recommend them 100%
 
gail1 said:
I live in norfolk and the care at the Elise B center is superb. Excellent full care team there and whats more they have an open clinic 9-10 monday to friday. Would recommend them 100%
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Great, thanks Gail 🙂.....do you know what the Hingham area is like?
 
gail1 said:
dont know what hingham area is like sorry
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Ok thanks anyway.....will just have to jump in with both feet! 😉
 
Phil65 said:
Might be relocating to Norfolk in the near future and was wondering what the diabetes care is like there?.....I don't know the area at all and assume that I would have to attend Norwich Hospital for my D care? Any advice would be great. 🙂
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Hi Phil, as it's only 17 miles to Norwich I would suspect that would be your destination for pump clinics 🙂
 
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Yes, Norfolk and Norwich is very good, really good team and as Gail says, they have a daily drop in which can help, as well as a dedicated phone line for the nurses so you can usually get hold of a nurse within a few hours if you need someone. They don't have great provision for putting adults onto pumps but you appear to already have one so that wouldn't be an issue for you. The clinic is great in that everything is in the one place. So you go up for your review and have your bloods taken, eye photos etc and then the results are there and waiting for when you see the doctor 20 minutes later.

If you're in Norfolk you would either be assigned to the N&N, Queen Elizabeth in Kings Lynn or James Paget which is Great Yarmouth way. I don't have personal experience of the latter two but from what I've heard N&N is the better of the three.

Don't know Hingham too well but a pretty nice area from what I've seen when going through it. Very rural though so not much in the way of public transport etc.
 
aymes said:
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Yes, Norfolk and Norwich is very good, really good team and as Gail says, they have a daily drop in which can help, as well as a dedicated phone line for the nurses so you can usually get hold of a nurse within a few hours if you need someone. They don't have great provision for putting adults onto pumps but you appear to already have one so that wouldn't be an issue for you. The clinic is great in that everything is in the one place. So you go up for your review and have your bloods taken, eye photos etc and then the results are there and waiting for when you see the doctor 20 minutes later.

If you're in Norfolk you would either be assigned to the N&N, Queen Elizabeth in Kings Lynn or James Paget which is Great Yarmouth way. I don't have personal experience of the latter two but from what I've heard N&N is the better of the three.

Don't know Hingham too well but a pretty nice area from what I've seen when going through it. Very rural though so not much in the way of public transport etc.
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Thanks for all of that info Aymes, interesting stuff and a good start. 🙂 I know Hingham is quite rural .....we like rural, exciting challenges ahead.
 
I havnt got a clue what the care is like on Hayling Island but i ould have thought its got to be better on the mainland. Good luck with moove 🙂
 
I'm also at the Norfolk and Norwich and, like Gail and Aymes have said, I can't fault them! Everything is in the one place, they have the drop-in, the phone line. I have no complaints about them at all, and they were amazing whilst I was on my year abroad - contact via email, arranging appointments for when I was back in the UK!
 
Norfolk's a big county - some bits are nearer to other places outside Norfolk than main centres in Norfolk eg Kings Lynn in north west is nearer to Wisbech, which is in Cambridgeshire, although Kings Lynn hospital has a diabetes unit; Thetford Forest area is nearer to Newmarket and Cambridge.

But, Hingham is nearer to Norwich & Norwich Hospital in Norwich.

Lovely county to visit / work odd days (my experience) and presumably in which to live, but a blooming long journey to get anywhere else 🙂
 
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