Posted on: 24 May 2021
Let's DiaBEAT this 12 May 2021
Around 90 social prescribers, wellbeing coaches, link workers, health champions and support workers attended our online Let’s DiaBEAT this event on 12 May 2021 to find out the crucial role they can play in preventing type 2 diabetes. We held the event as part of a range of activities to support Type 2 Diabetes Prevention Week which runs from 10 to 16 May 2021. There’s been some great initial feedback and the format is being adapted by other regions.
Typical comments included:
“The event has given me more confidence about discussing the NHs Diabetes Prevention Programme with patients and everything that it offers.”
“Good informative session with lots of info crammed in!”
“Excellent session - as a GP currently developing an interest in diabetes this has been really useful.”
The line up
Attendees heard from a fabulous range of speakers as outlined below. We've also provided the links to the presentations we used.
- Adele Graham, Diabetes Programme Manager, West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership
- Rachel Martin, Improving Care Manager, Diabetes UK– North East and North Cumbria
- Jon Scott Operations Manager and Katie Coppack, Coach, Reed Wellbeing
- Dr Waqas Tahir, Clinical Diabetes Lead, West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership and Bradford District and Craven System Programme
- Leisa Batkin, Primary Care Development Team (Personalised Care), Leeds GP Confederation
Your pledges
We asked attendees to let us know what they'd do differently as result of attending the event and captured these in our list of pledges.
Key messages
Here's a reminder of the key messages.
Questions and answers
On the day attendees took the opportunity to ask questions which we've now responded to. We've put these together in our questions and answers document.
Evaluation
Attendees who filled in an evaluation survey rated the event an average of 9.4 out of 10. See the evaluation summary for more information.