Setting up new pump user patients via video

[Amity Island]

An interesting article on the way hospitals are having to set up people new to pumping via video.

Remote pump starts to help people with diabetes during lockdown - The Diabetes Times

Roche Diabetes Care Trainers, looking for new ways to work with people with diabetes under current circumstances, have made a transition to using video conferencing tools to remotely help those who are beginning pump therapy. Trainers in this role usually show patients and healthcare...

diabetestimes.co.uk

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

I wrote about this in May 🙂

Remote pump starts

I was interested to get a phone call this week about measures being put in place for remote pump starts. My pump went out of warranty at the end of last year, but I didn’t get called for a ’show and tell’ of the current crop of options before lockdown. It will be interesting to see how this...

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