Patients across south west Hertfordshire are set to benefit from extra support to help prevent repeated diabetes emergencies.
The Eastern Academic Health Science Network (EAHSN) has teamed up with the region’s ambulance service to help people with diabetes when they experience a ‘hypo’ caused by very low blood sugar levels.
A team of 12 project managers and educators which will be based in locations across the East of England has been funded by the EAHSN for two years, and will look at reducing hospital admissions and ambulance attendances as a result of hypos.
People with diabetes attended by East of England Ambulance Service staff after a 999 call out will be now referred to the new pathway and offered education sessions with the project’s clinical educators, during which the cause and future prevention of hypoglycaemic episodes will be discussed.
The initiative is set to be rolled out across Herfordshire before the end of the month.
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