Thursday, 26th February 2009
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Type 2 Diabetes Education programme comes to town
(Community Orientated Diabetes Education) A highly effective diabetes patient education programme is beginning soon in Cork City. Doctors have linked in with the local branch of the Diabetes Federation of Ireland to enable their diabetes patients with Type 2 Diabetes to avail of the programme over a 6 month period. The programme is aimed at empowering people to make informed decisions about their own diabetes as daily diabetes care is important for future health status. “This course is available free through local primary care centres and rollout by the Diabetes Federation of Ireland is a direct result of the need to provide education locally”, says John Verling chairperson of the Cork branch. The results to date have been excellent with over 40 programmes held nationwide in 2008. Evaluation has shown that participants have made improvements in their cholesterol levels, reduced their weight and waist circumference over the course of the programme. By improving their understanding of Type 2 diabetes, participants found they could cope better with their condition and were more motivated at completion of the programme. Results of the Type 2 CODE programme indicated that 44% of people reported not regularly receiving diabetes care and that women with diabetes are not as aggressively treated as men resulting in higher risk factors for heart disease. Ms Liz Kirby, Dietitian and Development Officer who runs the programme, said “ the benefit of this programme is that it will help all people with Type 2 diabetes regardless of whether they are newly diagnosed or whether they have Type 2 diabetes a long time. People who undertook the 6 month programme were enthusiastic and showed positive results with increased diabetes understanding and an improvement in diabetes management”. Participants attend one 2 hour session in each of the first 3 weeks of the programme, set personal goals for themselves and then revaluate those goals with the programme co-ordinator and then attend a final 2 hour session after Six months. Chairperson John Verling added, “We are delighted to bring the programme to Cork City and we are also holding a public education meeting on Sunday March 29th in the Imperial Hotel in Cork which is open to all. Education is the key to good diabetes management and a good quality of life”. We would encourage any GP with an interest in the programme to Contact the Southern Office of the Diabetes Federation in Cork at 021 – 4274229 to find out about running the programme in your practice. The Community Orientated Diabetes Education (CODE) programme, part funded by the HSE, is available to all GPs in the area. COMPETITION
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Last Week’s Teazer
Though the discoverers of Antarctica were often close to starvation they would never touch the meat of the Polar bear even though they possessed the means to kill one
Why ?
Last week’s Answer
To Celebrate Work Life Balance Day on Feb 27th
Polar bears are only found in the Artic (North Pole)
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An Coppens of the hit RTE Series ‘How Long Will You Live’ and Bright Business Coaching together with The Douglas Post have one of An’s Work Life Balance 90 Day Workout on Memory Stick to give away.
Leonardo da Vinci carried out the following experiment. He held a sphere of very thin fragile glass above a floor of solid stone. When he dropped it, the sphere fell two metres (6ft) without breaking. How ?
Q. What’s the name of the hit RTE Series An Coppens is a guest consultant on?
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