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Welcome to Episode 29 of 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened'!

With listeners in 25 countries, this Episode is brought to you in support of diabetes awareness and care by the CDE Online Pharmacy (https://cdeonline.co.za/), the online store of choice for people living with diabetes.

If you're living with diabetes or a health professional that facilitates diabetes care, you're in the right place!

Join our journey, as we grow together in understanding, insight, and self-awareness to change lives for the better. Our deliberations are always honest, challenging and thought provoking. Nothing is off the table as we discuss real people, their real issues and stories, and together discover real answers to many vexing practical issues in diabetes and its care.

This week, Stan and Michael ‘go it alone’ without a studio guest. Looking forward to the imminent release of updated national management guidelines for type 2 diabetes, we focus on care in general beyond medications, and the access to and navigation of best care for oneself. Vital insights covered include:

• The often unfortunate treatment of diabetes as an acute ‘illness’ instead of a ‘chronic health condition’.
• Factors required to access the spectrum of chronic care and for good chronic care
• Good chronic care always starts with an activated health professional who is specifically trained in chronic care and the many factors that must be considered in addition to the physical issues
• Why an interdisciplinary team approach is needed, what constitutes a ‘team’ and what splits such teams
• The usual blessing of time in diabetes care in facilitating the many changes that may be needed in management and self-management
• An encouragement for collaborative care driven by client self-advocacy
• The ‘safe space’ characterised by a true chronic care consultation
• Choose your care or move!
• The differences between acute and chronic healthcare
• The flexibility needed in chronic care practitioners to respond appropriately to a person’s changing health care needs along the ‘coaching and life continuum’
• Structural requirements for optimum diabetes care
• Advocacy starts with you!

In our next Community Advocacy Message, Kirsten de Klerk from SA Diabetes Advocacy invites inspired health professionals to join the growing advocacy movement as ‘clinical advocates’ to improve quality of life for people living with diabetes in South Africa - to register, visit DiabetesAdvocacy.org.za and click on the ‘Advocacy’ to register as a clinical advocate.

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We want to hear from you! If you have any questions, suggestions, comments or contributions for future episodes, or if you'd like to advertise on this podcast, email us @ Podcast@CDEDiabetes.co.za

For health professionals working in diabetes

The CDE Academy Postgraduate Forum in Diabetes Management is a state-of-the-art interactive weekend learning event for health professionals interested in the management of diabetes. Our 25th Anniversary event will take place at the Maslow Hotel in Sandton from 27-29 October 2023. Registration open @ https://www.cdediabetes.org/index.php/for-healthcare-professionals/annual-forum

Learna/University of South Wales offer a one-year, online, part-time, distance learning Postgraduate Diploma in Diabetes Care. Sign up for a second year to earn an MSc in Diabetes. Gain a competitive edge and enhance your client care! Register @ ⁠https://www.diploma-msc.com/p/diploma-in-diabetes⁠