Help with your Type 2 Diabetes – Diabetes Managed Clinical Network

Sources of help & information to help you manage your type 2 diabetes.

Your Guide to type 2 diabetes

^{Your GP or practice nurse can give you a copy or you can download one.}

_{Your guide to type 2 diabetes | Free diabetes information – Diabetes UK Shop}

Newly Diagnosed with type 2 diabetes

^{Your GP or practice nurse can give you a copy or you can download one.}

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My Diabetes My Way

^{Information about what type 2 diabetes is, what it might mean for your health and what you can do to manage it.}

_{https://mydiabetesmyway.scot.nhs.uk/}

Diabetes UK

_{Information for people who are newly diagnosed, including a Learning Zone with videos, quizzes, food ideas and tips for managing diabetes.}

_{www.diabetes.org.uk/diabetes-the-basics/types-of-diabetes/type-2}

My Desmond Digital Programme

_{Use health trackers including HbA1c, weight/shape, healthy eating and blood pressure to check your progress. You can track your steps and activity minutes, and link to your FitBit and Google Fit.}

You can invite your family & friends to join your journey and compete against each other in fun activity challenges.

You can self refer or ask your healthcare professional to refer you.

_{www.diabetes.org.uk/diabetes-the-basics/types-of-diabetes/type-2}

Healthy weight & nutrition

Get Moving with Counterweight

_{A free one-year healthy lifestyle programme for NHS patients, provided by leisure partners throughout Lothian. Nutrition information, fun group exercise classes and support to lose weight.}

Get Moving with Counterweight – Adult Weight Management and Type 2 Diabetes Prevention Service (nhslothian.scot)

Second Nature

_{Now available from NHS Lothian, this digital programme (app) can support you to create long term healthy habits to improve your overall health.}

Second Nature – Make losing weight feel easier

Type 2 Diabetes Remission Programme

_{Some patients, within 6 years of their type 2 diabetes diagnosis, may be suitable for an
intensive diet replacement programme run by specialist dietitians.}

Second Nature – Make losing weight feel easier

Groups

DESMOND (Diabetes Education & Self-Management for Ongoing and Newly Diagnosed)

_{Learn from experts and other people with type 2 diabetes within the first 12 months of diagnosis. Sessions are interactive and informal led by trained facilitators. They run throughout Lothian either in person (9am – 4pm) or online (3x2hr or 2x3hr sessions). Interpreters can be arranged.}

Call: 0131 537 9169
Email: loth.desmond@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk

Local Support Group

_{Find a local group near you:}

services.nhslothian.scot/diabetes