WINNER
Emma Green
Emma initiated our diabetes education training for all teachers throughout Leicestershire. She holds training sessions once a month for 40 teachers. The sessions cover everything they need to know about managing a child with diabetes at school:
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What is diabetes,
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Carbohydrate counting for school lunches
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Administering injection or managing insulin pump.
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Management of low and high blood glucose levels.
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Supporting children during exercise
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Helping to create management plan for school trips
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Signposting when to call health care professional or emergency service.
The results speak for themselves, because Emma provides these sessions it means that
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Children in Leicestershire schools get a high quality of care
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Parents are less anxious about their child's diabetes care at school
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It has improved relations between school, the families and the diabetes team
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It helps with the pressures the other health care professionals have, freeing up time for them to concentrate in other vital areas, such as home visits, re-stabilisation for existing patients who are struggling and education for newly diagnosed patients.