Our work
Find out more about the work of the Diabetes Forum and the other organisations we work with
How we represent forum members
- Promoting best practice in diabetes nursing.
- Leading the development of diabetes nursing practice.
- Promoting the nature, scope and value of diabetes nursing.
- Educating nurses and health care professionals and improving the quality of compassionate patient care.
- Influencing changes in diabetes nursing that will benefit both patients and nurses.
- Supporting patients in the self-management of diabetes.
Our strategy
- Supporting the “End diabetes stigma and discrimination” campaign and encouraging members to sign up individually.
- Aim to increase forum membership by up to 25% through social media engagement and events such as webinars, conferences.
- Increase the link nurse membership of the forum committee to include Paediatric nurses, and GPN, DN or LD nurses so the forum reflects the areas where diabetes care takes place.
- Utilise surveys/polls for our members to find out the challenges they face with caring for people with diabetes.
- Promote Peer to peer support and increase lived experienced voice for members with diabetes.
- Explore diabetes prevention for our members.
What we are currently working on
- guidance around managing diabetes in patients with neurodiversity
- reviewing employers responsibilities for employees (nurses and/or patients) with diabetes/long term conditions to support workforce requirements
- using polls to gather member information to ascertain ideas for possible events such as conferences/webinars
- providing an update for a diabetes technology section for the diabetes essential guide.
Diabetes Forum Reports
Page last updated - 14/03/2024
