Developing quality structured education in diabetes
Providing award-winning training
Welcome to the DESMOND community, a place for everyone interested in lifelong learning in Type 2 diabetes. This is a new and developing space. So, if you are visiting and using this website, please share your feedback and watch us grow!
DESMOND reaches out at Wembley for 60 years of the NHS
Members of the DESMOND Team joined several hundred NHS at ‘NHS Live’, a unique event to mark the achievements of the NHS past and present held at the prestigious Wembley stadium in North London.
Programmes
Type 2 structured education programme just grows
and grows
DESMOND is now the local structured education programme of choice for 70 healthcare organisations across Great Britain and Ireland, for people newly diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. And with an ever-growing ‘waiting-list’ to take up the newly diagnosed module, demand for training is at an all-time high.
Does education work when you are newly diagnosed?
Tim Taylor was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in December 2004 – 3 days before Christmas. Some of the very first DESMOND programmes were running in his local area, and his GP offered him the chance to attend. Did it make a difference for Tim?
New education programmes
will benefit 1,000s more
Two new DESMOND education programmes to be launched in 2008 have the potential to reach thousands more people currently affected by diabetes.
Training
Are you thinking about becoming a DESMOND Educator?
Want to become a member of the DESMOND ‘family’? Having heard of DESMOND, have you ever thought about training to become a DESMOND Educator? Would you like to provide your patients with the best start they deserve in self-managing their diabetes? Becoming a DESMOND Educator couldn’t be easier…
News
DESMOND wins Skills for Health sponsored Health Service Journal award
The Health Service Journal Awards at the end of November celebrated UK healthcare at its best – including recognising those at the leading edge of healthcare training via a ‘Skills Development’ award sponsored by Skills for Health.
News flash! DESMOND reaches the parts other treatments
can’t reach
It’s official! The DESMOND programme can help you lose weight; give up smoking; get exercising and feel less depressed. And it lasts for at least 12 months. Which is good news if you have just been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes and live in one of the 69 local areas currently offering this award-winning programme.
Research
Calling all lay people with an interest in diabetes…
How would like to become a trained DESMOND Educator? Do you live in Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Peterborough, Leicester and West Lothian? If the answer to both those questions is Yes! Then we are looking for you!
Monitoring for success - how research is helping patients
take control
New and exciting DESMOND research will get underway in May this year when the DESMOND self-monitoring study begins. The study, funded by Diabetes UK, will be comparing the effectiveness of urine and blood monitoring on glycaemic control when monitoring skills are part of a structured education programme – in this case, the DESMOND programme.