Diabetes UK have a wide range of resources and services to support people living with diabetes and  healthcare professionals: 

• Our information prescriptions are consultation tools that include easy-to-read explanations, clear images and individual goals to help keep kidneys healthy and to support people to live well with chronic kidney disease (CKD).
• Learning Zone, is an award-winning, interactive tool to help educate and support people with diabetes.
• Our Online Shop which includes free resources for people living with diabetes and healthcare professionals.
• For further information and support, your patients can get in touch with the Diabetes UK helpline: 
• Telephone: 0345 123 2399, Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm 
• Email: helpline@diabetes.org.uk  

If you're in Scotland:  

• Telephone: 0141 212 8710, Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm.  
• Email: helpline.scotland@diabetes.org.uk 

Keep reading this page for different resources from Diabetes UK, and other organisations, that are applicable to the different topics covered in Kidney Disease Collection.

• HCP Resources - Practical resources to support healthcare professionals to spot kidney disease sooner, slow its progression and to deliver the best practice in renal care.
• Kidney Kit to support people recently diagnosed with kidney disease.
• A video of the symptoms of kidney disease, for healthcare professionals and people with diabetes. 

• Resources for primary care professionals from Kidney Care UK.
• Education, tools and resources provided by the National Kidney Foundation.
• The UK Kidney Association supports the professional community in delivery kidney care and research, including an educational hub and managing the UK Renal Registry.
• Patient information leaflets from the UK Kidney Association.
• My Kidneys and me resources for people with CKD, from Leicester Kidney Lifestyle Team.
• Helpful videos on CKD for people living with the condition, from University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust.

• Kidney Research UK have information on acute kidney injury (AKI), including symptoms, diagnosis and treatment.
• Information from Kidney Care UK including an information booklet.
• NICE guidance on AKI.
• Guidance from KDIGO (2012) on AKI.
• Information on AKI from the National Kidney Foundation.

• Daniel Newman’s story
• Angela Riley’s story
• Veniece Patel’s story

• Language Matters: Language and Diabetes – A guide with practical examples of language to support positive interactions with, and outcomes for, people living with diabetes.
• Language Matters: Obesity - a resource to help educate healthcare professionals around having conversations with people living with obesity.
• Challenging weight stigma learning hub – from Public Health Scotland, a learning resource to help you understand weight stigma, its impact and how to have good conversations about higher weight and behaviour change.
• Overweight and obesity management: principles of care - a one page summary from NICE on how to communicate and support people living with obesity and overweight. 

• Tackling Inequalities Commission Report – A series of recommendations at an individual and an organisational level to acknowledge and address the challenges faced by people experiencing health inequalities.  
• Kidney Disease: A public health emergency - A report from Kidney Research UK on the health economics of kidney disease to 2033, identifying interventions to improve the prevention, management and treatment of chronic kidney disease.
• Chronic Kidney Disease: An action plan for Scotland - A report from Kidney Research UK recommending 19 actions to ensure everyone living with chronic kidney disease in Scotland has timely and equitable access to diagnosis, treatment and care.
• The Hidden Cost: Cost of living and diabetes - A report from Diabetes UK detailing how the cost of living is impacting people with diabetes.
• The cost of staying alive report - Report from Kidney Care UK, outlining the increased costs and financial impact of living with chronic kidney disease.

• Supporting information from Diabetes UK on living with diabetes and mental wellbeing, including our Emotions Information Prescription and CPD e-learning module on Emotional Wellbeing.
• Information and guidance on mental wellbeing and kidney disease from Kidney Research UK, including a report about the mental health impact of kidney disease on patients and recommendations for improvements to care.
• Information and guidance from the National Kidney Foundation on how to take care of the mind and kidneys.  
• Information and strategies to support mental wellbeing from Kidney Care UK.
• NHS Talking Therapies, for anxiety and depression
• Information from the NHS on social prescribers and health coaches. 

• Weight loss surgery for type 2 diabetes - Further information on weight loss surgery.
• Public Health England’s step-by-step guide for brief interventions with adults around weight management.
• Information on weight loss from Diabetes UK including a weight loss planner.

• Kidney Kitchen, Kidney Care UK - includes recipes for people at any stage of CKD. They include the carbohydrate content per portion to help people with diabetes and CKD account for the carbs in their meal.
• Diabetes and kidney disease; what can I eat?  Tips from Kidney Care UK on how to enjoy food and eat well when living with diabetes and CKD.
• 10 tips for healthy eating with diabetes, recipe finder and meal planners from Diabetes UK.
• Guidance on managing salt intake from Diabetes UK.
• Information on hyperkalaemia (high potassium levels), including causes, symptoms and treatments, from Kidney Research UK.

• Movement Hub | Sport England – From Sports England, access tools and resources to help people engage with sport and physical activity, including a timeline of daily online classes to suit all levels.  
• Movement for Health | We Move Together – Coalition of Scotland’s leading health charities to support people with long term conditions to become more active.
• Kidney Beam - an online platform developed by healthcare professionals and people with lived experience of CKD to support people with CKD to become more active.

People can get support to quit smoking through local NHS stop smoking services or from Quit Your Way Scotland (Scotland only).

QRISK Calculator - a tool to estimate the 10-year risk of a heart attack or stroke, for those not already on statins or diagnosed with cardiovascular disease.

The Kidney Failure Risk Equation - a tool to determine the 2 and 5-year risk of kidney failure (dialysis or transplantation) for patients with CKD stage 3a to 5.

NICE guidelines: 

• Initial investigations and classification of CKD.
• Chronic kidney disease: assessment and management.
• Type 2 diabetes in adults: Management.
• Type 1 diabetes in adults: diagnosis and management.
• Hypertension in adults: diagnosis and management.
• Cardiovascular disease: risk assessment and reduction, including lipid modification. 
• Finerenone for treating chronic kidney disease in type 2 diabetes

The rationale for removing adjustment for ethnicity from eGFR creatinine and recommendations for implementation of the change in practice from the UK Kidney Association.

SIGN (Health Improvement Scotland); Management of diabetes.

KDIGO 2022 Clinical Practice Guideline for Diabetes Management in Chronic Kidney Disease.

London Kidney Network's CKD early detection and optimisation pathway.

Current management of chronic kidney disease in type-2 diabetes – a tiered approach: An overview of the Joint Association of British Clinical Diabetologists and UK Kidney Association (ABCD-UKKA) Guidelines.

Management of patients with CKD from the UK Kidney Association.

Interventions for Chronic Kidney Disease in Primary Care, one-page overview of managing chronic kidney disease in primary care from Medscape UK.

Chronic kidney disease: detect, diagnose, disclose, a UK primary care perspective of barriers and enablers to effective kidney care.

• Visual summary on choosing medicines for type 2 diabetes in adults, from NICE.
• The British National Formulary.
• Prescribing information for people with type 2 diabetes, from NICE, including Metformin, SGLT2 inhibitors, finerenone and GLP-1 receptor agonists.
• Specific guidance from NICE on Empagliflozin (NICE) and Dapagliflozin (NICE) for treating chronic kidney disease.
• SGLT2 inhibitors clinical guide for healthcare professionals from Trend Diabetes.
• The UK Kidney Association patient information leaflet about SGLT2 inhibitors.
• GLP-1 RAs (Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists) - Prescribing in Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and supporting kidney patient access – from the UK Renal Pharmacy Group.
• NICE guidance on statins for primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease in people with CKD.
• Should I take a statin? NICE patient decision aid.