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SEREN Connect: A Holistic Young Adult Diabetes Education
by NHS Collaborative, NHS Wales
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SEREN Connect is a comprehensive education programme to address a long-standing gap in service provisions for Young Adults (YA) living with type 1 diabetes (T1D). It helps teams to support every child with diabetes in Wales. The transition from young person to young adult and the difficulties of trying to self-manage health is hard at this notoriously turbulent time. SEREN Connect provides tools for all healthcare professionals (HCPs) to deliver information on age-appropriate topics that directly or indirectly impact the lives of YA living with T1D. It aims to influence and improve services across Wales, via paediatric and adult colleagues.
Judges' comments:
"The SEREN Connect project has identified that one of the big problems in paediatric and young people education is that here aren’t any national programmes and lots of people have been trying to develop them without real success. This work has done just that and is also incredibly innovative, with spectacular outcomes."
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