Paediatric Diabetes

In this section:

1. The Children's Diabetes Team
2. Our Philosophy of Care
3. Aims and Objectives of the Diabetes Team
4. Outpatients Consultation Time
5. Outpatients Psychology Service
6. Diabetes Transition Service
7. Clinical Guidelines
8. Patient Leaflets
9. Recipes
10. Contact Details
11. Getting 24-Hour Access to Support
12. Companies that Provide Useful Products and Pump Accessories
13. Support Networks

The Children's Diabetes Team

The Diabetes team is multi-professional and includes specially trained Consultant Paediatricians, Paediatric Diabetes Nurses and Dietitians who will all work closely with you to provide the best possible care and support for your child.

Getting 24-Hour Access to Support

If you require urgent diabetes advice outside of office hours, please telephone St Peter’s Hospital - 01932 872000 and ask the switchboard operator to bleep the on-call Paediatric Registrar.

Companies that Provide Useful Products and Pump Accessories

• Medical alert provide lots of different medical alert jewellery and ID tags
• Aquapac provide waterproof insulin pump cases
• Frio produce cooling pouches to prevent your insulin getting too warm on holiday or in hot weather
• IpSOX make insulin sock cases
• Funky pumps provide pump pouches and other diabetes products
• Spi-belt produce a small range of pump pouches

Support Networks

The Families with Diabetes National Network is the network of the parent reps from each regional network of the country

The Diabetes UK website https://www.diabetes.org.uk/

The JDRF website who work closely with clinicians, researchers, the NHS and MPs to bring the latest treatments to people living with Type 1. https://jdrf.org.uk/