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January 2021
AGM 2021
Online Meeting
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Online Sport
and Fitness
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Partha Kar’s
Covid Advice
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Annual General Meeting committee
elections
Online via Zoom
21 January 2021 | 19.00 - 21.00
Posts are available! If you’d like to find out more about the work of the
committee, let us know! We’re seeking a new Chair and also at least,
Book on
would warmly welcome a social media enthusiast! If you are interested,
you’re very welcome to come to meet the friendly committee at their eventbrite
next Zoom meeting and/or chat with any committee members. here!
Contact us via DiabetesUK.Sheffield@gmail.com
Find out more about local groups here.
Raffle Prizes
Thursday January 21st will be our Annual be able to inaugurate our new Chair! Anita
General Meeting (AGM), all welcome! Vere has Chaired the group (and held her
nerve) through 2020 and is looking for a
We will of course be holding the meeting
different challenge!
online to keep us all safe. 50p per ticket!
Other roles available are those of
We’ll be looking back over 2020; with
Treasurer, Vice Chair, Secretary, Minutes Prizes are:
officers reporting on the group’s activities wash and body
and adaptations! We also undertook 2 Secretary, and New Members Link; some • Baylis & Harding body
of these members are keen to carry on moisturiser from M&S
surveys during 2020, seeking members’ Spots &
views of telephone diabetes’ consultations volunteering in their role. We are also lucky • Adam Brown’s Bright
to have committee members without such dm ine ; the Dia bet es Guide I wish
and our experiences and opinions about Lan
me
Diabetes services generally. designated roles and if you’d like to be someone had handed
books bag.
one, let us know! • A fabulous Usborne
Dr Jenny Stephenson who is Sheffield’s
The meeting will be held online on
GP Lead for Diabetes will be reporting on
Thursday, January 21st from 7pm;
progress made since her survey, and Katie
book through Eventbrite.
Whitehead who’s a local Practice Nurse
and a member of Diabetes UK’s Council of If you are interested in joining the
Healthcare Professionals will be reporting committee do get in touch – by email;
back on her work to improve telephone DiabetesUK.Sheffield@gmail.com or
consultations. phone 0742 938 5554.
Committee members are selected and Find out more about the committee’s work
elected at the AGM, and hopefully we’ll and members here.
Fake NHS vaccine messages
Beware of the Banking Fraud Scam
Fraudsters Living Well with Diabetes Course
are sending This is a course which provides you with
out bogus
proven ways to reduce stress, anxiety
text
and depression symptoms which might
messages
about the coronavirus be impacting on your management of
vaccine in an attempt to your condition.
steal bank details. It’s an opportunity to meet other people
The latest scam is preying living with different types of diabetes and
on vulnerable people. learn from each other’s experiences.
Health authorities have What can I expect
stressed they would never
from the sessions?
ask for an individual’s
Five sessions
banking details.
delivered by two
NHS professionals, you will have an
opportunity to learn how to make some
positive changes.
T2 Breakfast Study When & Where?
Update
De Montfort University Leicester There are a total of 5 sessions Online
which are one and half hours Course
De Montfort University have recently starts
long (with plenty of breaks) 02.02.21
received funding to support this study. and run on a weekly basis.
Any volunteers who participate in the
Please contact our central office to
second part of the study will receive a Contact:
register your place 0114 226 4380 or
voucher after completion to cover the cost DiabetesUK.Sheffield@gmail.com or Kinga
click here for more info.
of all the items required for breakfast study. Kwiecien P16184914@my365.dmu.ac.uk
Online sport and fitness
to improve your health
Silver Shakers
Let’s keep active with light workouts Diabetes, exercise, insulin and blood
Monday to Friday, recipes and other sugars
fun stuff. Anyone living with Type 1 or Type 2 and
We might be locked down but you can on insulin, the Diabetes Team at Sheffield
still hang out with Bernard the cat and Teaching Hospitals would be really happy
his lovely motivating Silver Leader Lucy to accept referrals here at the diabetes
Domdouzy. The James Ball Online Gentle centres for support to manage their
Class you’ll find here. Blood Glucose when they are active.
Recommended by James Ball - the Please contact them on 0114 271 4445;
presenter from our November meeting leave a message for Carla or Carly.
Visit us on facebook here.
Is Moving Magic for Diabetes?
geert.pieters
Visit pre-recorded videos on the Sheffield City Trust website here.
www.diabetespsychologymatter.com Diabetes and
Feeling optimistic Fitness your body
and coping with with How does diabetes really affect your
lockdown Hack your
HbA1c
Type 2 body? Why not have a look a this
interesting article:
Healthy Living, a free, online NHS https://www.healthline.com/health/
Very interesting
and helpful service, helps people living with diabetes/effects-on-body
documents in Type 2 diabetes to:
PDF format to
download. Feel supported to self-manage
your condition
Improve your psychological
wellbeing
Be motivated to make healthy
choices and live a healthy life
Sign up at
http://healthyliving.nhs.uk
phone: 0742 938 5554 web: sheffield.diabetesukgroup.org facebook: en-gb.facebook.com/SheffieldDUKGroup Twitter: @Sheffield_DUK
Covid 19 advice from Partha Kar
Take.The.Vaccine. Prof. Partha Kar,
National Speciality Advisor for
Prof Partha Kar, OBE, National Specialty Advisor for Diabetes with NHS England,
Diabetes with NHS England, is advising people with has been awarded an OBE in
the New Year’s Honours List.
diabetes that the current COVID-19 situation in the UK Huge congratulations from
is very serious; it is very much fully back. all at Sheffield Diabetes UK.
People with diabetes are at a higher an eye on what we can do, which may
risk from the Coronavirus, in terms of include improving our HbA1cs (How to Foot Health
worse outcomes (and for everyone, the Hack your HbA1c is included on the
If you have diabetes
risk increases with age), and he strongly previous page); keeping active (details
and concerns about
advises and requests that we, and our of online and TV exercise groups are
your foot health (here),
friends and family members, stick closely also included) and living well with Type 2
experts in Sheffield can
to the current rules. diabetes here.
help despite the lockdown.
Locally, help is available Ideally you should contact your GP
There is lots of advice and useful initially but if you’ve been seen by the
information and contacts on the Diabetes Foot Team before or if you
Sheffield City Council Coronavirus are very worried, for further advice,
webpage here. you can send an a email with your
Specific support & advice is available details and photograph of your foot
through the City Council; from 8:45am- problem to: sth.foot@nhs.net.
4:45pm, members of the public can call Diabetes UK advice is to keep the
0114 273 4567 and have the option to weight off your foot as much as
ask any questions or concerns relating to possible and seek help as soon as
the current Coronavirus situation. you can.
These are:
• Stay at home unless essential Contact details for all Sheffield GPs
You can find more info about
are here.
• Use face coverings/masks and wear diabetic foot ulcers here.
them properly; over the mouth and Community Hubs
Organisations that are registered charities lin
Concerns about insu
nose
or faith based organisations with a track
pen needles
•Wash hands frequently and well, for
record in supporting their community.
at least 20 secs (as long as it takes e people with Type
to sing happy birthday!), with soap. Hubs may offer services such as; Over the last month, som
ort ed problems with the
1 in Sheffield have rep
• People who are at particularly high • Supporting those who are most at risk dles for their insulin
GlucoRX CarePoint nee
to get the support they need. s have appeared to
risk do need to shield; keeping away pens. Some new needle
pen’s plunger can’t be
from others as much as possible • Provide info, advice, health and be blocked so that the
e people are reporting
and completely following the above wellbeing support over the phone. pressed down and som
without knowing what’s
rules. • Taking on volunteers from the very high blood sugars
frightening to give
It’s well known that socialising and mixing community and pointing their own causing them. It can be g
t the BG without knowin
with people from other households is a volunteers to areas of need. another dose to correc ard )!
’t, IOB (Insulin On Bo
prime opportunity for the virus to jump whether there is, or isn
• Supporting people who need it with by
with the manufacturers
from one person to the next, and this is access to food. This is being taken up eld CC G
o is the Sh effi
even more of a risk with the new strains Charlotte McMurray wh
• Directing to appropriate support.
Ph arm aci st for Dia betes, who suggests
which are even more infectious, and this Lead
pre scribe BD Viva pen
is why our meetings are all online at the • Trying to be social, in spite of social that we ask our GPs to re
nt has a checklist he
moment. distancing, with emotional and social needles.This docume inc lud ing
ore injectin g,
wellbeing support where possible. of things to consider bef
Professor Kar does say however, that nee dle eac h time.
Contacts for local support in your using a new
there’s lots of hope; there are vaccines
available now and there are things we can area here.
all do to help reduce the risk to ourselves
and others, which includes sticking to
Voluntary Action Sheffield (VAS) can also
be contacted on Sheffield
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and lion costume?
Please get in touch Thank you.
In his final podcast of the year Partha
looks at all things diabetes related from Sheffield Group News Team:
2020 in 10 minutes. Linsay Halladay, Carol Imelda,
Well worth a listen here! Stu Ritchie, Wolfgang Dumm
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