Agenda item

Hannah Morrow, Diabetes Sheffield, to present

Hannah Morrow, Volunteer Outreach and Partnerships Officer, and Rachel Martin, Health System Engagement Lead, Diabetes Sheffield, gave the following powerpoint presentation:-

Diabetes is Serious – Working Together in Rotherham

-        Estimated that over 5M people now lived with Diabetes across the United Kingdom

-        7.45% of the adult English population had a Diabetes diagnosis

-        Over 1M of those people lived in the North of England

Working in Partnership with South Yorkshire ICB

-        Working to engage and support local diabetes communities between April 2023 and March 2025:

•       Engagement and support events

•       Awareness raising, information and training

•       Together Type 1 youth programme

•       Support and patient information packs for community pharmacies (to be confirmed)

•       Signposting to Diabetes UK support

Why Diabetes is serious

-        Diabetes is relentless.  It required constant decision making and careful self-management to stay well with the condition

-        For too many people with Diabetes still led to serious complications and even, sadly, early death

-        With the right care and support, any life-altering Diabetes-related complications could often be prevented

-        The National Institute for Care Excellence (NICE) recommended 8 routine checks for people with Diabetes, 9 if you included routine Diabetic eye screening, which had been shown to reduce the chances of developing complications

-        Healthy systems had made significant progress in improving access to routine care since the pandemic but this progress was not taking place on an equal basis

Diabetes Care in Rotherham 2022-23

-        1,300 people registered with T1 Diabetes and 16,025 people registered with T2 or other Diabetes in 2022-23

-        Proportion of people with Diabetes who received all 8 care processes in 2022-23 ranged from 21.4% to 76.5% depending on GP practice

-        Over 9,000 non-Diabetic hyperglycaemia registrations

-        Across all PCNs the Urine Albumin health check had the lowest completion rate

-        People living in deprivation were more likely to develop T2 Diabetes

-        People living in deprivation were less likely to access the care/support they needed and more likely to develop Diabetes-related complications and had poorer outcomes

Community Engagement

-    Training and Support

•       Diabetes awareness training for frontline staff (in person or online)

•       Train the trainer model for voluntary and community groups

•       Awareness talk for staff and volunteers (Lunch and Learn)

-        Libraries Training

•       55 library staff had completed the online CPD module

Discussion ensued with the following issues highlighted:-

-        It was estimated that every week Diabetes led to 184 amputations, 770 strokes, 590 heart attacks and 2,300 cases of heart failure

-        High level of inequalities in the care that people were receiving depending upon where they lived

-        Training had started in Sheffield with more planned in Doncaster. Conversations were taking place in Rotherham and also with Age UK

-        Volunteers across the region and a strong volunteer peer support group in Sheffield

-        An event on 20^th April in the Fanzone at New York Stadium

-        Together Type 1 Team aimed at 11-25 years – fun days out which gave an opportunity for parents to meet other parents

-        The issue of practices having no control over when their urine samples were collected (one of the NICE recommended 8 routine checks for people with Diabetes).  Also practices did not control retinal screening

Hannah and Rachel were thanked for her presentation.

Resolved:-  That the information contained in the presentation be noted.