Diabetes Patient Supporter Group
The Patient Supporters at the Elsie Bertram Diabetes Centre offer a non-urgent listening service and an opportunity for patients who are either newly diagnosed with diabetes or are in progression through their condition to be able to talk to someone in a similar circumstance, the conversation is friendly, reassuring and informal and no medical advice is given. The Patient Supporters come from a wide variety of backgrounds and cover all age groups, all the advisors have diabetes and range from mothers, young people who have dealt with the condition from childhood through to people well into retirement