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Alan 49
DAFNE Graduate
Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust 284 posts |
My niece (who is also a Type 1) is trying to get on a DAFNE course - she knows how well I got on after my course. Her local hospital (the Medway Maritime Hospital) runs DAFNE courses which are one day a week for five weeks, rather than the Monday to Friday course which I did. This doesn't seem to be a good way of learning to me - surely you lose the continuity of five consecutive days of instruction. |
novorapidboi26
DAFNE Graduate
NHS Lanarkshire 1,819 posts |
Interesting...... |
Carolin
DAFNE HCP
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals 83 posts |
Hi Alan, |
marke
Site Administrator
South East Kent PCT 675 posts |
Alan, who told you that Medway were running DAFNE ? The reason I ask is they were a DAFNE Centre but dropped out, as did my centre East Kent. Unfortunately in Kent they like to invent their own education programmes so as well as modifying DESMOND and calling it DEREK, they have also 'dropped' |
Alan 49
DAFNE Graduate
Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust 284 posts |
Mark, you're right - it's not DAFNE, Medway doesn't do DAFNE anymore. They've got what they call the Patient Education Programme and it's 4 one day courses, spread over 4 weeks. Sorry I got the information wrong - I've not been able to speak directly with my niece about this - I get the details from her mother. |
marke
Site Administrator
South East Kent PCT 675 posts |
hmm, interesting question I'm not sure if you can do DAFNE out of area since I think you may have to be referred. Carolin can probably answer this if she reads this post, if not I will ask DAFNE Central if there is a way of this happening. I suspected it was not DAFNE, I'm in East Kent and we have now lost DAFNE in favour of KATIE (??) so people here are in the same position. |
Carolin
DAFNE HCP
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals 83 posts |
Hi Alan, |
Alan 49
DAFNE Graduate
Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust 284 posts |
Hello Carolin |
Alan 49
DAFNE Graduate
Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust 284 posts |
It seems that my niece's GP wouldn't refer her to Maidstone for the DAFNE course. He told her that there is a suitable course at the Medway called MINTE, which she has been referred to. It's 4 one day courses spread over 4 weeks. |
marke
Site Administrator
South East Kent PCT 675 posts |
Alan, seems it is called MIMINT1E ( boy do they need a new marketing person ) but is as you describe. So what happened to choice in the NHS ? you can choose a hospital for an operation (supposedly ) but not your Diabetes education. A real shame but hopefully any Diabetes education is better than none. I hope the course goes well and your niece gets some real benefit out of it. |