This services provides specialist diabetes care for adults in the community, including:
- Medical and nursing consultant-led clinics
- Diabetes specialist nurse clinics
- Diabetes specialist dietetic service
- Diabetes specialist foot health (podiatry) service
- Health promotion events
- Education programmes for patients and professionals.
We offer community-based support (sometimes called Tier 2 and 3 services). These are mainly for people who have Type 2 diabetes without significant medical complications.
Most patients with Type 1 diabetes and those with complex medical needs are managed by hospital teams.
Our clinics take place across Ealing, so that you can access care closer to home.
Referrals to the service are made via your GP however you can refer yourself to both Right start education and the DELICIOUS education programmes.
Contact the service via the Ealing community referral hub: 0300 1234 544
Right Start is an education programme for people with Type 2 diabetes. It involves our diabetes specialist dietitians, podiatrists and diabetes specialist nurses.
The programme is designed to help you understand your condition and increase your confidence in managing your diabetes. This is a free service if you’re registered with a GP in Ealing.
You can attend the Right Start programme if you:
- Have Type 2 diabetes
- Can get to the sites where we provide the programme (we can’t provide transport)
- Are able to understand English or Punjabi – we hope to provide the programme in other languages in the future
- Are registered with a GP in Ealing.
- Are motivated and able to commit to 4 sessions, which last 2 hours each.
Our clinics take place across the borough of Ealing, so that you can access care closer to home.
We provide Right Start at four locations:
- Mattock Lane Health Centre, 78 Mattock Lane, West Ealing, W13 9NZ
- Greenford Methodist Church, Ruislip Road, Greenford, Middlesex UB6 9QN
- Jubilee Gardens Medical Centre, Jubilee Gardens, Southall, Middlesex UB1 2TJ
- Featherstone Road Clinic, Hartington Road, Southall, Middlesex, UB2 5BQ - these sessions are only provided in Punjabi.
You can refer yourself to Right Start or a health professional can refer you.
To find out more about Right Start, contact the Ealing community referral hub on 0300 12345 44.
DELICIOUS is an education programme for people with Type 1 diabetes. It involves our diabetes specialist dietitians, podiatrists and diabetes specialist nurses and medical consultants.
The programme is designed to help you understand your condition and increase your confidence in managing your diabetes. This is a free service if you’re registered with a GP in Ealing.
You can attend the DELICIOUS programme if you:
- Have Type 1 diabetes
- Can get to the sites where we provide the programme (we can’t provide transport)
- Are able to understand English
- Are registered with a GP in Ealing
- Are motivated and able to commit to 7 hours per day for 4 SEPARATE DAYS.
Only 6 to 8 people can attend each session to allow the clinician enough time to support each person with diabetes.
Our education sessions take place in 2 locations across the borough of Ealing, so that you can access care closer to home.
We provide DELICIOUS at:
- Greenford Methodist Church, Ruislip Road, Greenford, Middlesex UB6 9QN
- Jubilee Gardens Medical Centre, Jubilee Gardens, Southall, Middlesex UB1 2TJ.
You can refer yourself to DELICIOUS or a health professional can refer you.
To find out more about contact the Ealing community referral hub on 0300 12345 44.