Diabetes

During the current coronavirus pandemic, the members of our Whittington diabetes team are helping to look after sick patients with COVID-19. We are therefore not able to run our usual general diabetes clinics. We are still running some clinics for patients with diabetes and major health problems, but these are largely conducted over the phone in light of the government’s advice to minimise non-essential contact and the risk of infection.

 

Our priority is to support our diabetic patients to remain as well as possible. We are therefore writing to all patients who have attended our diabetes clinic over the last 2 years with advice about how to look after themselves (see below).

 

We have set up a diabetes clinical support telephone advice hotline. This is available for patients who attend the Whittington diabetes clinic and who require rapid or urgent advice about managing their diabetes.

 

 

We are aiming for this advice line to be manned by a diabetes specialist clinician, but due to the current situation we cannot guarantee they will always be available.

 

Patients who attend the Whittington diabetes clinic who require urgent advice about managing their diabetes at other times should please contact their GP or emergency services.