This Diabetes Awareness Week, people in south east Essex with Type 2 diabetes are being encouraged to enrol on an education programme to help them to manage their condition.
Diabetes Awareness Week takes place from Monday 9 to Sunday 15 June and aims to increase understanding about diabetes.
The Type 2 Diabetes Education programme is provided by Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT) and aims to help people with diabetes improve their knowledge, skills, and confidence.
It covers understanding diabetes, medications, understanding monitoring and targets, complications and how to avoid them. It also includes discussions on healthy food choices and how to increase activity levels in day-to-day life.
Emma Day, Clinical Lead for Adult Diabetes services at EPUT, said: “People who attend the course often feel more confident about managing their diabetes. They are informed on making healthier food choices and looking after themselves.
“It also gives participants the opportunity to meet other people with diabetes, and we welcome family members or carers to come along to the sessions too.”
The sessions take place once or twice a month at the Hawthorn Centre in Rochford Hospital and last for half a day, from either 9.30am to 12.30pm or 1.30pm to 4.30pm.
To find out more and to enrol on the course, please visit the EPUT website (www.eput.nhs.uk/services/south-east-essex-community-diabetes-service) and complete the patient self-referral application form.