Slightly alarmist reporting by the Daily Fail last week claimed that 1 million people with diabetes on insulin could lose their driving licences due to new EU legislation. As with most stories, however, there is a grain of truth in this one, and here at ShootUp, we’re doing something about it. You can too. What’s… Read More »
This dog doesn’t often get the chance to chat with others about what diabetes care they receive, so it’s hard to get an independent view of what should be happening and then compare that to your own reality. This dog fetched himself a copy of the latest National Diabetes Audit and was aghast to discover… Read More »
Fame at last. Like all good things – sausages, vegetarians, homeopathy and compost are amongst the terrifying collection of “awareness weeks” listed in the UK – we diabetics have our own week. And it’s now. My initial assumption was this week meant it was obligatory for all those with a working pancreas to live the… Read More »
Planned changes to the way in which HbA1c measurements are reported have been postponed from June 2011 until October 2011 basically because no one understands the changes and people are understandably a tad underwhelmed and befuddled by them. This dog was hoping one of the ShootUp authors would have gotten their heads around this by now… Read More »
It’s been a busy week in the “lets tease those pancreatically-challenged types by talking about cures again” department. First it appears that the place to be for a magic cure is Bristol, where they’re excited that soon they’ll be able to offer islet cell transplants to some pancreatically-challenged types. There’s a convenient lack of any mention… Read More »
Diabetes is in my life everyday – living with it, blogging about it, speaking to other people with it. That makes it a bit hard to get it into perspective. Some numbers about the pancreatically challenged masses in the UK may help, all shamelessly cribbed from Diabetes UK’s latest impact report (apart from the panda bit,… Read More »
Everyone’s second favourite diabetes charity, Diabetes UK, has announced plans for this year’s Diabetes Week. Diabetes Week is Diabetes UK’s annual UK-wide awareness and fundraising week which runs from 13 to 19 June 2010 and promises a roller-coaster ride of pancreas-related thrills and spills. DUK have said that this year will focus on dispelling some… Read More »
As I mentioned in my earlier post, the UK is currently gripped with election fever. Readers in the UK will be all too aware of this, with election coverage polluting the airwaves at every turn; so I merely include this for our readers from abroad who don’t listen to the BBC World Service and haven’t… Read More »