For World Diabetes Day 2023; #diabeteschat hosted a 6 hour virtual conference. We had lots of guest speakers, for the fun packed event, raising lots of awareness for Diabetes. The event was Monday 13th November 2013 and started at 6pm and ran to 12am GMT (UK Time). We raised lots of awareness for [...]
In this #diabeteschat episode Tom was joined by Bastian and Renza from the #dedoc° team. #dedoc° is an international community by and for people with diabetes and was founded in 2012 by Bastian Hauck, who created the Twitter hashtag #dedoc to host weekly TweetChats for the German chapter of the Diabetes Online Community. [...]
In this video, #diabeteschat founder Tom Dean highlights the togetherness of community and peer support and celebrates the journey #diabeteschat has been on and the huge achievement of the QiC Peer Support Award 2023 in a thank you message. We wish to thank all the amazing people that have supported the #diabeteschat community [...]
On this #diabeteschat episode Flipper spoke to Duke about his diabetes diagnosis and journey, OCD, mental health and peer support. We also spoke about Duke's career as a poet and did a live performance reading his poems. You can also listen on Twitter spaces: https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1mnxepyyANAJX/peek
This week on the #diabeteschat we were joined by Eden and Desmond. We started the night finding out more about Laura, James and Julia; hearing their background to diabetes, their roles at EDEN and Desmond and what fascinates them about Diabetes. We then learnt lots about Leicester Diabetes Centre, EDEN and Desmond and [...]
On this #diabeteschat episode we were joined by parents of the Type 1 Club. We heard all about the amazing group and how it all started, the events they do and all the amazing fundraising they do to support children and their families. We spoke to Edelle, Gayle and Kelly and learnt how [...]
Mental Health Awareness week commenced Monday Monday 15th May 2023. On the #diabeteschat we talked about mental health and peer support and were joined by the GBDoc community to discuss this very important topic. You can also listen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1OwGWwkqoQpGQ and use the hashtag - #diabeteschat
On the 1st of May 2023, Jacq Allan joined the #diabeteschat as our guest speaker. Jacqueline Allan is a diabetes psychologist who is also an associate lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London, and has been in this role since January 2022. She has worked at King's College London as a trainee clinical psychologist [...]
On the 24th of April 2023, Kes Fuller joined the #diabeteschat as our guest speaker. Kes originally wanted to join the Royal Navy as this had always been something that she wanted to do from her time with the sea cadets. As time went by Kes was unable to do this as she [...]
On the 13th of March 2023, Menopausal Mithersjoined the #diabeteschat as our guest speaker. In this podcast episode Kes and Mary hosted the lovely ladies from the Menopausal Mithers community. We spoke with Alex, Shiv, Anita, Sammy and Dawnie. We had a fantastic lived experience panel discussion taking about each others diabetes diagnosis and [...]
