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28/07/2020 | 5 minutes

We are all patients…..

I have often thought that the term ‘patient’ can be unhelpful in today’s health service because the word patient describes a person who is poorly or unwell and is the passive recipient of medical treatment.

Ruth Miller
Diabetes Nurse Consultant for the North West London Diabetes Transformation programme

28/07/2020 | 5 minutes

Inside the NWL Diabetic Eye Screening Programme

An insight into North West London Diabetic Eye Screening Programme (NWL DESP), the largest programme in London and one of the biggest in England.

Katie O'Leary
Senior Team Leader at the North West London Diabetic Eye Screening Program

27/05/2020 | 6 minutes

Empowering front line staff and people living with diabetes

Diabetes first became my big passion when I joined a doctor’s surgery as a practice nurse in the neighbourhood where I was living at the time. It didn’t take me long before I realised that the most important lessons about diabetes came from people living with diabetes and their families rather than from the textbooks I read.

Ruth Miller
Diabetes Nurse Consultant for the North West London Diabetes Transformation programme