Diabetes

• Get Healthy Service – This is a free, confidential telephone-based service which helps people to make lifestyle changes including healthy eating, being physically active and achieving and maintaining a healthy weight.
• Go4Fun – This is a free healthy living program for children aged 7 – 13 who are above a healthy weight.
• Heart Foundation Walking Groups – This program aims to make regular physical activity enjoyable and easy, especially for people who are not used to being active.

ComDiab is a FREE community group education program for people who have, or are at risk of type 2 diabetes. Participants will learn about type 2 diabetes and what they can do to improve their health and live well. The program is provided to complement and support the treatment and care provided by general practitioners, nurses, diabetes educators, and allied health professionals.

ComDiab is expertly designed and delivered by trained registered nurses who are accredited with Diabetes NSW and ACT. The program involves interactive group sessions to help participants to:

• Understand and monitor their diabetes or diabetes risk
• Make healthy food choices
• Be physically active
• Take measures to prevent or control diabetes
• Prevent diabetes complication

Programs are offered regularly across CESPHN. For more information on upcoming programs please see below.

Community Diabetes Education Programs in the South Eastern Sydney region

Programs are held at:

Sutherland Hospital and Community Health Service (HealthOne, 126 Kareena Rd, Miranda NSW 2228).

Research & Education Centre, St George Hospital (4-10 South Street Kogarah, NSW 2217).

Call 9540 8175 OR email SESLHD-Intake-IntegratedCareUnit@health.nsw.gov.au 

Culturally and linguistically diverse sessions

The Community Diabetes Education Program aims to support people living with or at risk of type 2 diabetes who speak Cantonese, Mandarin, Greek, Vietnamese, Bengali, Nepali and Arabic languages. Those attending a workshop will learn about:

• Understanding diabetes
• Making healthy lifestyle changes
• Living with diabetes

Workshops are free and delivered by Diabetes NSW & ACT health professionals. These sessions are delivered either directly in language by bilingual facilitators or with the assistance of an interpreter.

Bookings are essential. For more information on upcoming programs or to register click here, or call Diabetes NSW & ACT on 1300 342 238.

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a risk factor for lower limb amputations and it is estimated that 85% of such procedures are preventable in Australia. To decrease the prevalence of diabetes-related amputations, the NSW Diabetes Prevention Framework states that people with DM require an integrated care approach for effective diabetes management. In line with the Framework, Diabetes Healthy Feet aims to increase coordination between primary and tertiary care providers to facilitate timely and appropriate foot care for diabetes patients in the CESPHN region.

For more information on the program, please click here

We can assist your practice in setting up programs and resources to help prevent people from developing type 2 diabetes.

Click here to visit the practice support section.

The AUSDRISK tool is a short list of questions to help both health professionals and consumers assess the risk of developing type 2 diabetes over the next five years. Adults with a total score of 12 or more are defined as being at risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

For further information on the tool, and to order copies, click here.

We have translated this tool into a range of languages, including

• Arabic
• Chinese
• Greek
• Italian
• Korean
• Vietnamese

We have also developed templates for Best Practice and Medical Director. Please see the practice support section above for assistance with loading templates into your clinical software.

Patients aged 40 – 49 years, or 15 – 54 years for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, who score 12 or more on the AUSDRISK tool are eligible for a health assessment for type 2 diabetes risk evaluation. This assessment is completed using MBS Items 701, 703, 705 or 707 (or 715 for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people). Click here for more information, or here for more information on 715 health assessments.