Post Covid-19 Type 2 Diabetes Clinic
The post Covid-19 type 2 diabetes clinic at the Leicester Diabetes Centre
What is the post Covid-19 type 2 diabetes clinic?
This post Covid-19 type 2 diabetes clinic is a one-year pilot of an intensive service to care for these patients in a secondary care virtual and face-to-face clinic.
How can primary care healthcare professionals refer patients for this clinic?
Patients are referred to the clinic via secondary care (the think glucose email - monitored by the clinical diabetes team) but also via direct PRISM referral in SystmOne by primary care healthcare professionals.
The referral criteria are:
Type 2 diabetes
HbA1c > 9%
Covid-19 positive at any time (included suspected Covid-19)