Diabetes

Who are we?

  • We are a group of stakeholders, including people living with diabetes, clinicians and health professionals, who want to improve services and outcomes for people living with diabetes and those at risk of developing it in Greater Manchester.
  • We are led by our clinical lead, Dr Naresh Kanumilli, a GP in South Manchester, who is supported by a number of other clinicians and the network team.
  • Our full clinical team is:
    • Dr Naresh Kanumilli, GP, Northenden Group Practice, Manchester
    • Dr Moulinath Banerjee, consultant, Royal Bolton Hospital
    • Dr Jaweeda Idoo, GP, Alvanley Family Practice, Stockport
    • Dr James Hider, GP, Partington Family Practice, Trafford
    • Dr Naseer Ahmed, vascular surgeon, Manchester University Foundation Trust
    • Dr Hood Thabit, consultant, Manchester University Foundation Trust
    • Dr Liz Dapre, GP, Conway Road Medical Practice
    • Dr Sarah Steven, consultant, Manchester University Foundation Trust
    • Dr Jonathan Schofield, consultant, Manchester University Foundation Trust

What are our aims?

  • Develop a clear strategy for improving services and supporting people living with diabetes
  • Articulate clinical best practice and support improvement in diabetes services, achieving better outcomes and experience for the 200,000-plus people in Greater Manchester who live with the disease
  • Ensure patients, carers, doctors, nurses and families have a voice in designing and developing services
  • Identify and highlight unwarranted variation, share best practice and support quality improvement

How do we do it?

  • Networking and partnership working to identify where improvements can be made
  • Analysing data to develop intelligence and insight to inform and evaluate service improvement
  • Developing resources such as the diabetes clinical best practice strategy and the diabetes transition strategy and supporting GM and place-based implementation
  • Support prevention, self-management, education and other services to enable people to engage effectively with clinicians and manage their condition better
  • Co-ordinate the roll out of the national prevention programme ‘Healthier You’
  • Support NHS Greater Manchester to implement clinical strategy, NICE guidance, medicines optimisation.

How do we make a difference?

Our approach includes:

  • Ensuring a patient-centred approach to the Network’s diabetes programme of work, as well
  • Recognising the diverse nature and needs of communities across Greater Manchester
  • Seeking to address health inequalities in every aspect of the work we do
  • Building clinical leadership and consensus to develop robust, evidence-based proposals for service improvement

How can I find out more?

Our Diabetes Network and the Clinical Leads Group play important roles in helping shape the Strategic Clinical Networks’ diabetes programme.  To find out more about the diabetes work we deliver, and how to get involved, please contact  england.gmecscn-oversightgroup@nhs.net. 

To provide support for people living with diabetes and personal access to their own GP diabetes data, the SCN has supported NHS Greater Manchester to implement the My Way Diabetes service and patient app; visit www.diabetesmyway.nhs.uk for full details.

 

Resources

Resources are available on the Greater Manchester MyWay Diabetes site for people living with diabetes and clinicians ad healthcare professionals.