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Diabetes self-management

Checked: 29-01-2024 by Vicky Ryan Next Review: 28-01-2025

Overview

The attached leaflets to support self-management, especially when ill, are nationally recognised leaflets that the local area has generally adopted ( all three community specialist teams use and most of the hospital teams).

Patients can access these directly on the Sirona website in the Leaflet Library using this link:

Diabetes - general information - Sirona care & health (sirona-cic.org.uk)

Hypoglycaemia Explained

Diabetes: Why do I sometimes feel shakey, dizzy and sweaty? Hypoglycaemia explained.

Steroids

Type 2 Diabetes and Steroid tablets 

Type 1 Diabetes when ill

Type 1 Diabetes: What to do when you are ill

Type 2 Diabetes when ill

Type 2 Diabetes: What to do when you are ill



Efforts are made to ensure the accuracy and agreement of these guidelines, including any content uploaded, referred to or linked to from the system. However, BNSSG ICB cannot guarantee this. This guidance does not override the individual responsibility of healthcare professionals to make decisions appropriate to the circumstances of the individual patient, in consultation with the patient and/or guardian or carer, in accordance with the mental capacity act, and informed by the summary of product characteristics of any drugs they are considering. Practitioners are required to perform their duties in accordance with the law and their regulators and nothing in this guidance should be interpreted in a way that would be inconsistent with compliance with those duties.

Information provided through Remedy is continually updated so please be aware any printed copies may quickly become out of date.