Diabetes UK
Diabetes UK have a wide range of resources and services to support people living with diabetes and healthcare professionals:
- Our Healthy Kidneys Information Prescription and Kidney Disease Information Prescriptions are consultation tools that include easy-to-read explanations, clear images and individual goals to help kidneys healthy and to support people to live well with chronic kidney disease.
- Local Support Groups provide an opportunity for people with diabetes to access local diabetes peer support.
- Our Support Forum is a space where people with diabetes, their families and carers, can exchange knowledge and experiences online.
- Learning Zone, is an award-winning, interactive tool to help educate and support people with diabetes. Combining evidence-based medical advice with real patient experiences, it delivers a unique learning experience that complements structured diabetes education. Clinically approved and endorsed by experts – you can log in as a healthcare professional to see what your patients will see.
- 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 the Kidney Health mini module.
Kidney research UK
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.
Diabetes and kidney disease poster to display in clinical practices and raise awareness of CKD risk for people living with diabetes
Diabetes UK information and guidance on kidney disease and maintaining kidney health for people living with diabetes.
Kidney Kit to support people recently diagnosed with kidney disease
Take a Wee Look a leaflet to encourage and support people to monitor their kidney health and detect kidney disease early.
National Kidney Foundation
Education, tools and resources provided by the National Kidney Foundation
Kidney Care UK
Resources for primary care professionals from Kidney Care UK
UK Kidney Association
The UK Kidney Association supports the professional community in delivery kidney care and research, including an educational hub and managing the UK Renal Registry.
Stigma
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.
Tackling Inequalities
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.
Losing weight, diet and physical activity
Weight loss planner – A resource to help you support people to lose weight
Weight loss surgery for type 2 diabetes. Further information on weight loss surgery.
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.
Treatment guidelines and pathways
London Kidney Network's CKD early detection and optimisation pathway
NICE guidelines: Chronic kidney disease: assessment and management.
NICE Guidelines- Type 2 diabetes in adults: Management
NICE Guidelines- Hypertension in adults: diagnosis and management include guidance on choosing blood pressure medication for people with type 2 diabetes.
NICE Guidelines- Type 1 diabetes in adults: diagnosis and management include guidance managing hypertension in people with type 1 diabetes.
Risk estimation and prevention of cardiovascular disease (SIGN, Scotland)
Diabetes health checks and keeping well
Diabetes health checks: An overview of the health checks people with diabetes should be receiving on an annual basis.
Heart Health Checks: Bookable, 20-minute community health checks run by Heart Research UK.
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.
Should I take a statin? NICE patient decision aid.
British and Irish hypertension society (BIHS) position statement on blood pressure treatment thresholds and targets. Recommendations from the BIHS for initiating pharmacological antihypertensive therapy.
Supporting behaviour change
NHS England Language Matters: Language and diabetes - This guide provides practical examples of language that will encourage positive interactions with people living with diabetes and subsequently positive outcomes.
Making Every Contact Count - elearning for healthcare - an e-learning programme, designed to support you in developing an understanding of public health and the factors that impact on a person’s health and wellbeing. It focuses on the importance of questions and listening effectively and aims to increase your confidence to deliver health and wellbeing messages to help encourage people to change their behaviour.
Behaviour Change Literacy for Individuals and Workforce Leaders - elearning for healthcare - This elearning programme will explore the role of behaviour change in promoting positive health behaviours and identify the skills and techniques that can be used to create an environment in which behaviour change will flourish.
RSPH | RSPH Learn | Introduction to Behaviour Change - This online course, which is free to Royal Society for Public Health members, will provide you with the information and skills you need to have conversations with people in order to help them make healthier decisions, but the principles can be applied to any conversation about any change.