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Supporting people experiencing homelessness with diabetes

This course provides an overview of the challenges which can present when people experiencing homelessness have diabetes, including a focus on Safeguarding Adult Reviews after death, and what can be learned from these. 

This work is a collaboration between all the partners in the image on the right. It has been funded by the Burdett Trust for Nursing, and is supported by Diabetes UK.
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The e-learning is quite extensive and could take between 2 and 4 hours, depending on your experience. However, it does not need to be undertaken in one go and might be better undertaken in a few sessions. Completing all the sections and the knowledge checks will result in the provision of a certificate evidencing 4 CPD hours.This course provides an overview of the challenges which can present when people experiencing homelessness have diabetes, including a focus on Safeguarding Adult Reviews after death, and what can be learned from these.

It then goes on to help you improve your clinical knowledge of the specific challenges (e.g. the management of Type 3c diabetes, management of diabetes with addictions), with separate sections on effective safeguarding, nutrition, eye care and foot care.

Finally, it has a clear focus on quality improvement, giving many examples of primarily nurse led innovation, and instructions of how to undertake a local quality improvement project. People with Lived Experience were heavily involved in the creation of this course, and you will hear from two of them in the course.

The course is relevant to specialist diabetes nurse, inclusion health nurses, allied professionals of all types and homelessness hostel and outreach workers.