Useful Links

  • Diabetes UK home page: www.diabetes.org.uk

    The charity for people with diabetes, and if you are going to buy something off the internet, do it through - www.free2give.com - so Diabetes UK can receive an extra contribution at no extra cost!

  • Dietitians on the Web: www.dietitians.co.uk
    Web Resource for Dietitians

  • Dose Adjustment For Normal Eating (DAFNE) website: http://www.dafne.uk.com/
  • DAFNE Food Plates
  • Email: Sharon Walker Sharon.Walker@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk
    Order address:
    Central DAFNE Administration
    Diabetes Resource Centre
    North Tyneside General Hospital
    Rake Lane
    North Shields
    NE29 8NH

  • Type 1 Diabetes Network
  • Contact: Joan Everett Joan.Everett@rbch.nhs.uk

  • IDF Diabetes Atlas

  • For more information visit the website: http://www.eatlas.idf.org/

  • Runsweet.com-diabetes and sport: http://www.runsweet.com/
    Website to help those with diabetes to maximise their sporting performance.
    The content of the site is by people with diabetes, who want to promote diabetes self care, and share knowledge on how to manage diabetes with different sports and exercises. The medical content is edited by Dr Ian Gallen, who is a U.K. Physician and Endocrinologist, with a special interest in helping sportspeople with type 1 diabetes
  • Successful Diabetes: http://www.successfuldiabetes.com/
    A new website set up in November 2008 by Jill Rodgers and Rosie Walker for health professionals and people with diabetes. The website provides both resources and information on workshops run by Jill and Rosie.

  • Diabetes Australia: www.diabetesaustralia.com.au/multilingualdiabetes/
    Multilingual home page: Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Malaysian, Serbian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese and Ukrainian.

  • The American Diabetes Association: http://www.diabetes.org/home.jsp
    The American Diabetes Association is the nation's leading nonprofit health organization providing diabetes research, information and advocacy.

    The mission of the Association is to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes. To fulfill this mission, the American Diabetes Association funds research, publishes scientific findings, provides information and other services to people with diabetes, their families, health professionals and the public. The Association is also actively involved in advocating for scientific research and for the rights of people with diabetes.
  • IDF - International Diabetes Federation: http://www.idf.org/home/
    The global advocate for people with diabetes.
  • JDRF - Juvinile Diabetes Research Federation International: http://www.jdf.org/

  • The Jewish Diabetes Association: http://www.jewishdiabetes.org

  • Diabetes Specialist Library: http://libraries.nelh.nhs.uk/diabetes/
    "The NeLH Diabetes Specialist Library is being developed to provide high quality information on all aspects of Diabetes including both clinical and organisational issues".

  • SIGN Guidelines: Management of Diabetes. http://www.sign.ac.uk/guidelines/fulltext/55/index.html

  • Home of the Glycaemic Index: http://www.glycemicindex.com/
    University of Sydney, Australia
  • ASO - Association for the Study of Obesity:
  • http://www.aso.org.uk/portal.asp

  • DOM UK - Dietitians in Obesity Management:
  • http://www.domuk.org/

  • Fishonline
  • If you are concerned about declining fish stocks and the welfare of our seas the Marine Conservation Society FISHONLINE website can help you identify which fish are from well managed sources and/or caught using methods that minimise damage to marine wildlife and habitats.
    http://www.fishonline.org/

  • Clinical Governance Support Team: http://www.cgsupport.nhs.uk/
    NHS Modernisation Agency. "The CGST is working to help you implement clinical governance. We offer practical support through our development programmes, information about clinical governance, lessons from development work across the country and a place to find answers to your clinical governance questions".

    National Diabetes Support Team - part of the Clinical Governance Support Team
    http://www.cgsupport.nhs.uk/diabetes/News/

    The NDST helps support the implementation of the Diabetes National Service Framework (DNSF)

    Diabetes NSF Forum home page: http://www.cgsupport.nhs.uk/forum/forum.asp?ForumID=4

    You can put your diabetes queries on the on line forum and contribute to the debate. Any submissions have to be approved before they are placed on the forum so they might not appear instantly.

  • Strategic Alliance For Diabetes:
  • http://www.diabetesplanning.org
    The Strategic Alliance for Diabetes has launched an online commissioning and clinical pathway tools for England. They provide guidance on how to commission services at primary care level. It includes information on the NHS commissioning process, how to make a funding bid, finding potential funding and examples of good practice.

  • NHS Direct Online:
  • www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk

  • Skills for Health:
  • www.skillsforhealth.org.uk

  • NHS Networks
  • home page: http://www.networks.nhs.uk

    NHS Networks has been set up is intended to connect people and places to ensure that the good things that are happening in the NHS are known by and influence as many people as possible.

  • DEFRA:
  • www.defra.gov.uk
    DEFRA homepage, the world of food production from the Ministry's point of view.

  • Department of Health Publications:
  • www.doh.gov.uk/outlook.htm
    This site gives you the latest news and information about the Department and our work. It also offers you easy access to the wide range of publications, policy and guidance we produce.

  • British Nutrition Foundation:
  • www.nutrition.org.uk
    This charitable foundation promotes the nutritional wellbeing of society through the impartial interpretation and effective dissemination of scientifically based nutritional knowledge and advice.

  • A free version of Medline:
  • www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/
    A database indexing articles in medical journals

  • NICE Database:
  • www.nice.org.uk
    The guidance will cover both individual health technologies (including medicines, medical devices, diagnostic techniques, and procedures) and the clinical management of specific conditions.

  • National Electronic Library for Health:
  • www.nelh.nhs.uk
    The role of the NeLH will be to provide health care professionals and the public (through NHS Direct Online and the New Library Network) with knowledge and know-how to support health care related decisions.

  • Evidence Based Medicine sites:
  • www.shef.ac.uk/~scharr/ir/netting.html
    Netting The Evidence - contains A-Z coverage of evidence based medicine sites with brief descriptions.

  • NHS Modernisation Agency:
  • http://www.modern.nhs.uk