Living with Diabetes

This is the seventh episode of eight special programmes, in our Living with Diabetes series, which takes an in depth look at women’s health issues. In this episode DRWF’s Claire Levy talks to Laura Spence, a midwife with ADHD who wants to improve the experience of pregnancy, birth and early parenthood for neurodivergent people. She joined us online from Northern Ireland. Our women’s health series is supported by Abbott.

This is the sixth episode of eight special programmes, in our Living with Diabetes series, which takes an in depth look at women’s health issues. In this episode DRWF’s Claire Levy talks to Sajeela Kershi who is living with Type 2 diabetes who wants to raise awareness in her south Asian community. She attempts to manage her condition alongside a challenging lifestyle on the road as a comedian. Our women’s health series is supported by Abbott.

This is the fifth episode of eight special programmes, in our Living with Diabetes series, which takes an in depth look at women’s health issues. In this episode DRWF’s Claire Levy talks with a panel consisting of the people we’ve already featured, so far, living with Type 1 diabetes, to explore common issues and solutions together: Dawn Adams, Greta Ehlers and Vanessa Haydock. Our women’s health series is supported by Abbott.

This is the fourth episode of eight special programmes, in our Living with Diabetes series, which takes an in depth look at women’s health issues. In this episode DRWF’s Claire Levy talks to Vanessa Haydock, a body trainer and coach living with Type 1 diabetes. Our women’s health series is supported by Abbott.

This is the third episode of eight special programmes, in our Living with Diabetes series, which takes an in depth look at women’s health issues. In this episode DRWF’s Claire Levy talks to Greta Ehlers who is Living with Type 1. She’s a big advocate for tech, encourages innovation in diabetes management to make it less intrusive. Our women’s health series is supported by Abbott.

This is the second episode of eight special programmes, in our Living with Diabetes series, which takes an in depth look at women’s health issues. In this episode DRWF’s Claire Levy talks to Dawn Adams, a midwife living with Type 1, who experienced issues of early symptoms of menopause. Our women’s health series is supported by Abbott.

This is the first episode of eight special programmes, in our Living with Diabetes series, which takes an in depth look at women’s health issues. In this episode DRWF’s Claire Levy talks to Sarah Bool MP who is living with Type 1 and sits on the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Diabetes. Our women’s health series is supported by Abbott.

Today we’re looking at the use of continuous glucose monitoring devices (CGMs) for both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Claire Levy talks with Jake Leach, the chief operating officer of CGM developer and manufacturer Dexcom, from their US headquarters in San Diego, California.

This is the first in a short series of interviews about research projects funded by DRWF. In this edition we talk with Dr Stephanie Hanna to discuss her work which identifies the white blood cells that can damage the pancreas in a project aimed at improving the treatment of Type 1 diabetes.

In this edition we hear from Dr. Ana Tiganescu, a university research fellow at Leeds University, about an interesting research project looking at skin healing in diabetes. Although this project isn’t funded by DRWF it does have some interesting findings.

In this edition we talk to Lee Calladine, our Educational Event Coordinator at DRWF, about our upcoming United Through Diabetes event as part of our 25th anniversary celebrations.

...an occasional podcast series, aimed at professionals, where we discuss the results of research projects, training needs, the challenges of Continuing Professional Development, and insights from patients and healthcare professionals. This edition looks at standardised HCP education within diabetes care.

Welcome to Diabetes Research and Wellness Foundation’s Podcast Pro – ...an occasional podcast series, aimed at professionals, where we discuss the results of research projects, training needs, the challenges of Continuing Professional Development, and insights from patients and healthcare professionals. In this edition we’re looking at the latest report from the iDEAL advisory group on footcare for people living with diabetes and its recommendations for encouraging self-referral and early intervention from multidisciplinary teams to reduce the number of amputations in the UK, potentially by up to 50%. The report highlights that up to a half of amputations resulting from diabetes-related complications could be avoided through early intervention. It’s currently estimated that the NHS spends around a billion pounds a year on these treatments. Current data sees a big variation across the country in the level of amputations which has been described as a postcode lottery for patients. The main recommendations centred around educating people living with diabetes, and healthcare professionals, to self-refer with rapid access to multi-disciplinary footcare teams, as recommended by NICE – 17% of teams have not yet embraced a multidisciplinary approach; plus good footcare regimes to prevent ulcers occurring and to avoid foot injury risks. To raise awareness a new mnemonic has been devised: ACT NOW

Claire Levy continues to explore the thorny issue of diabetes Stigma. If you are living with diabetes, you may very well have experienced ignorant and condescending comments, not only from the public and even family members, but also possibly professionals who we would hope know better. This DRWF podcast was made possible with an Unrestricted Educational Grant from Abbott Diabetes Care. These grants help us bring you great, free content, without editorial influence from the sponsor.

Claire Levy explores the thorny issue of diabetes Stigma. If you are living with diabetes, you may very well have experienced ignorant, condescending or simply rude comments, not only from the public and even family members, but also possibly professionals who we would hope know better. Stigma can manifest itself in many ways.

An insight into how the support you have given us is changing lives. Hear how our work at the DRWF Islet cell laboratories in Oxford, is making a real difference to real people this World Diabetes Day.

In this Podcast we’re paying tribute to the late Lynwood Newman, a long-term volunteer and supporter of the charity DRWF going back to 2006. Sadly, he passed away early in 2021 after a short battle with cancer.

In this edition we’re talking with Simon Marwood, Associate Professor of Physiology at Liverpool Hope University, who is the subject head for Sport and Exercise, Science and Sports Rehabilitation, in the School of Health Sciences Simon Marwood is involved in research which examines the impact of exercise on cardio-vascular disease. I started our conversation by asking him why people living with Type 1 diabetes can benefit from regular exercise. If you’d like to contact Simon Marwood with your experiences his email at Liverpool Hope University is: marwoos@hope.ac.uk

In this edition…. We’re talking to three people living with diabetes who are sharing their experiences to help others. Professor Pete Alexander is a stress relief expert, based near Seattle on the US west coast, and he’s been telling me about the techniques he’s developed which are summarised in a new book: Megan Pointing from Southampton in the UK has trained two of her three pet spaniels to be diabetes alert dogs: Plus we hear from Matthew Philips in Manchester who has a long family history of Living with Type 2 diabetes. Professor Pete Alexander has been diagnosed with stress induced diabetes and has subsequently developed a range of techniques to help him cope better. Having studied the condition, he now practices as a stress relief expert. He has published a new book called Lighten Your Day – Fast, Easy and Effective Stress Relief. We started by discussing his own diagnosis: Megan Pointing is a young woman expecting her first child. She’s living with Type 1 diabetes and as a firm dog lover and professional dog walker, she wanted to see if it was possible to train her dogs to recognise the scent of problematic blood glucose levels so they could alert her in advance of developing symptoms. She told me more about her dogs, how she trained them and her own diabetes. When there’s a long family history of diabetes there’s a high probability of also developing the condition. Matthew Philips, who is now 45, was diagnosed with Type 2 when he was 19. He told me he’s married with two children and two dogs, but although he works in property management, he’s spending an increasing amount of time promoting diabetes awareness and recently recorded his own podcast to share his experiences. I started by asking him about his family history.

In this edition…. We’re looking at the role of exercise in maintaining good health and management of diabetes. Dr Rob Andrews talks to us about the challenges and benefits of exercise for people living with Type 1 and Type 2. Marathon Runner Frank Rogers relates his experience which forms the basis for his new book – Running with Diabetes. We talk to Alison Northern, an implementation manager at the Leicester Diabetes Centre, to discover more about the MY DESMOND online education course for people living with Type 2 Life under lockdown when you’re living with diabetes. We talk to DRWF’s Lee Calladine about his Type 1 management. Plus the latest analysis of the way COVID-19 is affecting people with diabetes. Dr Partha Kar explains. And it’s a challenging time for charities. How is DRWF coping? I spoke with our fundraising manager Tim Green to find out.