Enfield Community Diabetes Service provides education, management support, and advice for diabetes management, including hypoglycaemia and steroid-induced diabetes care, insulin initiation, palliative care, and diabetes care in care homes. It offers interactive education sessions, health coaching, specialist dietetics input, and neurovascular clinics, with delivery via phone, face-to-face, or home visits.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusions

For diabetes management

• 18 years old and over
• registered with an Enfield GP
• living with diabetes

Please note: Patients meeting the exclusion criteria need to be referred to secondary care or monitored via the GP.

For structured education Type 2 diabetes

• Type 2 diabetes within 12 months of diagnosis 
• ongoing Type 2 diabetes diagnosis
• registered with an Enfield GP 

Please note: Consent must be gained from the patient to refer them to receive structured education. 

Exclusions

For diabetes management

• under 18 years old
• with type 1 diabetes (non-housebound patients)
• with type 2 diabetes and EGFR below 40 (needs to be referred via e-RS to secondary care)
• with type 3c diabetes
• with gestational diabetes
• with mature onset diabetes of the young (MODY)
• with monogenic diabetes
• with pre-diabetes

For structured education Type 2 diabetes

• under 18 years old
• with type 1 diabetes
• with type 2 diabetes and EGFR below 40 (needs to be referred via e-RS to secondary care)
• with gestational diabetes
• with mature onset diabetes of the young (MODY)

How to Refer