Diabetes education and self-management

Use the following resources and tools to improve diabetes education and self-management for people with diabetes.

On average, people with diabetes spend three hours a year with a healthcare professional. For the remaining 8,757 hours they manage their diabetes themselves. Diabetes self-management education helps people to stay healthy, live well and avoid expensive and life threatening complications.

Publications

Driving improvement in the uptake of diabetes education: Best practice modelling in Kent and Medway STP (PDF, 173KB)

Developing a menu of education options for people with Type 2 diabetes in Worcestershire, Diabetes UK (February 2016) (PDF, 151KB

This bright idea describes how South Worcestershire, Wyre Forest and Redditch and Bromsgrove CCGs worked together to develop a menu of education options for people with Type 2 diabetes. The menu includes First Steps, X-PERT and Mapmydiabetes - an innovative online self-management programme.

Achieving a step change in diabetes self-management education: a quick guide, Diabetes UK, (May 2016) (PDF, 58KB)

Diabetes self-management education: a healthcare professional resource, Diabetes UK (November 2015) (PDF, 66KB)

Quality diabetes education for all: a short guide for commissioners, Diabetes UK (November 2015) (PDF, 247KB)

Diabetes education: the big missed opportunity in diabetes care, Diabetes UK (June 2015) (PDF, 239KB)

Developing a diabetes education programme to meet local needs in Tower Hamlets, Diabetes UK (June 2015) (PDF, 163KB)

A quality assured local education course in East Sussex, Diabetes UK (June 2015) (PDF, 187KB)

Essential reading

• A practical guide to self-management support, key components for successful implementation, The Health Foundation website (December 2015)

• Taking control: supporting people to self-manage their diabetes, All-Party Parliamentary Group for Diabetes (March 2015) (PDF, 447KB)

• Structured education for Type 2 diabetes, a toolkit for optimal delivery, Health Innovation Network South London website (October 2014)

• How to engage men in self-management support, Men's Health Forum website

Shared practice examples

• Healthy Living for People with Type 2 Diabetes (HeLP), HeLP diabetes website (2016)

  Find out more about the HeLP diabetes programme and the randomised control trial and implementation study that will measure the effectiveness and impact of the programme.

• Home visit: an educational health strategy for self-care in diabetes, Acta Paulista de Enfermagem website, BRAZIL (2014)

• Guide to establishing and running volunteer local diabetes champions, peer educators and mentors, Know Diabetes website (September 2012) (PDF)

• Implementing the X-PERT programme in Bexley - structured education for people with Type 2 diabetes, Right Care (June 2012) (PDF, 812KB)

Resources

• Referral form for X-PERT education course, Bexley Health Ltd (Word, 74KB)

• Self-referral form for X-PERT education course, Bexley Health Ltd (PDF, 196KB)

• Diabetes Self Management Education Quality Standard, Quality Institute for Self Management Education and Training website

• Motivational interviewing resources, Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) website