Yearly diabetes check ups.

[LancashireLass]

If you look on the Diabetes UK website, there's a list of all the Annual Checks every diabetic should have from the NHS. Maybe they don't all apply (I've never needed the pregnancy ones for instance, neither have any diabetic blokes LOL) but I think there are at least 8 that everyone should have.

If you aren't getting them - complain!! They only get the extra dosh on the basis that they DO supply (or facilitate) them all! eg the annual retinal photography is always outsourced - maybe by the Mobile service spending a day actually at your surgery but if in your area it is outsourced to an opticians practice - it is DIFFERENT from 'ordinary' retinal photography offered as a matter of course for anyone having their eyetest at eg Specsavers or Asda opticians, since the photos need to be examined by differently qualified specialists, who have more immediate access to hospital expertise for treatment if it is necessary. They are also responsible within the NHS for sending you a letter after the photos have been examined EVERY time, to advise you of the results, when further action is required, or if not, the time lapse for the next one. That's the one where we all hope the letter says 'No prob - see you in 12 months!'

Could someone point me to this on the website please? It would be a handy tool to take with me when I see the nurse!

I only ever see my GP when I'm hauled in for my 12 monthly check and all he does is give me my HbA1c result, tries to throw more pills at me and then says "see you in 12 months". I really don't see the point in going but they threatened to stop my medication if I didn't attend. I go for eye screening every 12 months but this is out-sourced, so there is no involvement from the GP at all.

I was diagnosed in 2016 and no-one has ever checked my feet, for example.

 

[trophywench]

Diabetes health checks (annual review)

Diabetes can cause other health problems that can become serious if not picked up and monitored or treated in the early stages. So regular diabetes health checks – sometimes called your yearly or annual review – are part of your routine NHS treatment.

www.diabetes.org.uk