19th and 20th January - Grange Strathmore Hotel, London
9th and 10th February - Scalford Hall, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire
11th and 12th February - Grange Strathmore Hotel, London
8th and 9th March - Village Hotel, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
20th and 21st April - Grange Strathmore Hotel, London
13th and 14th May - Scalford Hall, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire
10th and 11th June - Village Hotel, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
6th and 7th July - Grange Strathmore Hotel, London
6th and 7th September - Scalford Hall, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire
7th and 8th October - Village Hotel, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
3rd and 4th November - Grange Strathmore Hotel, London
8th and 9th December - Scalford Hall, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire
If you are interested in becoming a DESMOND Educator please contact:
alison.harding@uhl-tr.nhs.uk
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…
There are already 500 Health Care Professionals (HCPs) trained to deliver the DESMOND newly diagnosed programme. These HCPs come from a wide variety of disciplines; currently some of the roles held by DESMOND Educators are:
Further information regarding training for HCPs will shortly be found in the Training section of this website. Keep visiting to have the full picture.
If you are not a health care professional but still interested in training to deliver DESMOND, perhaps our new study on Lay Educators may interest you. Click here to find out more.
The initial 2-day residential training course is just the beginning of your involvement as an Educator. DESMOND provides many opportunities for personal development. Personal and peer reflection, mentoring and assessment are all part of the journey towards accreditation. And for those who relish the challenge, we hope that many of our Educators will go on to take up roles as trainers or assessors themselves – and even participate in our cutting edge research studies.
As some of our Educators say:
“We are delivering DESMOND locally and it’s made me realise that we need to train practice staff
in the philosophy and style of the ongoing care planning that
DESMOND commences.”
“It definitely increased my confidence in lots of aspects of my role at work.”