PrePITstop: 3-day course

Outline content

This 3-day multidisciplinary diabetes foundation course focuses on the core diabetes services and care provision for people with type 2 diabetes and prediabetes and emergency management for people with type 1 diabetes. It is aimed at healthcare professionals working in primary care who want to work as a team to improve diabetes services and patient outcomes using structured care pathways.

Programme summary

• Classification and accurate diagnosis

• Diabetes screening for at risk groups

• Day to day living choices

• Encouraging referrals to the Diabetes Prevention Programme and Structured Education

• The oral diabetes medication pathway and related subjects (DVLA, hypoglycaemia, monitoring, concordance, individual target setting)

• Managing illness

• The provision of essential diabetes care using structured care pathways

• Cardiovascular disease prevention, including blood pressure, lipid and kidney management

• Eye screening and diabetes eye complications

• Emotional and mental health

• The foot assessment, foot advice and appropriate referral

• Preconceptual counselling and family planning advice (self-directed learning)

• Case studies: putting it into practice

• Use of audit to improve outcomes

Suitable for

• GP, GP trainee, Practice Nurse, Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Community Nurse, Clinical Pharmacist and Paramedic wanting to become involved in diabetes provision

Courses are currently being delivered live, online. Duration 19.5 hours

Booking information:

How to apply for funding and apply for this course

Please complete the MS Form available at the following link: Funding Request MS Form

The Training Hub will review and respond to your funding request. If funding is approved, it will be your responsibility to book your place on the course you wish to attend, we will provide the instructions to do this. Applications will be reviewed in order of the course date (soonest courses first) and date received. If you have any questions, please contact us at hwetraininghub@nhs.net.

Please note, you will need to send us your booking confirmation within 1 week of your funding being approved as places are limited. Failure to do this will result in your funding being withdrawn and you will need to reapply.

Course cost

The course cost per delegate is: £432.00

If your funding request is approved the Training Hub will cover the full cost of this course.