From staff shortages and closing clinics, to patients who haven’t had a face-to-face appointment in years – ahead of the nursing strike, a diabetes specialist reveals their day-to-day struggles
I get to the hospital at 8.30am for a multidisciplinary team meeting, at which consultants and specialist nurses get together to discuss complex diabetes cases. Today, we’re focused on patients who have severe mental health conditions in addition to their diabetes. We find that when things go wrong in people’s lives, their diabetes care is one of the first things to suffer. People with eating disorders, personality disorders and other problems often find management of the disease much harder, and it’s our job to find solutions.
