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Oct 18, 2010

Annette Bell 72 posts

I agree with Emma - aren't we already asking for permission & contact details in the letter I produced? Talking of which, does everyone approve of the latest version & should I send it to Gill for production as we are already behind on our target dates? I also think Emma's 3rd point is a good idea.
Annette x

Oct 18, 2010

Jennypenny 34 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Dafne refresher courses

its been going on for a couple of years and apprantly they get enough people going to keep carrying on with it

Oct 18, 2010

novorapidboi26 1,819 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Dafne refresher courses

I cant see this picking up greatly, as people cant get the time off to attend..........

Constant liason with your diabetic team and a quick skim of the handbook is all it takes......

For me the dafne principals are simple, its the conastant battle with your own body thats the hard part...and this can be discussed with the HCPs as opposed to specifically DAFNE trained staff...

Oct 18, 2010

Benton Fred 7 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Dafne refresher courses

Hi Ad
Not familiar with DAFNE drop in. But i've got a refresher course on 1st November. I'll keep you psoted on how it goes.

Fred

Oct 16, 2010

ThunderBolt 28 posts

Topic: Site Development / DAFNE Online iPhone application - help with content/design needed

Cheers Simon...

To be honest it's probably just me as I still can't seem to get into the habit of putting my needles in my pocket when I leave the house - or my blood test kit for that matter. If anything I'd suggest an option for auto-fill in the settings section similar to the one you did for bedtimes. Or maybe even (tech ignorance follows) a method of having the space blank until you tap BI and then it fills it in itself according to what's in the individuals settings. If I think of anything I'll let you know, but as I say, the way things are now are ace.

The app v site bedtime thing isn't much of a problem as such. I just wanted to raise the subject to warn anyone doing a last minute print before a clinic visit. I was just assuming everyone else was as disorganised as me!?! Heheh!

Re Dr Jez comments... Sounds like a stonking idea. Whatever you both decide I wish you well. Perhaps we could also look at providing diabetics with FREE iphones. Or is that pushing it a bit?

Oct 16, 2010

marke 686 posts

Topic: DUAG Committee / First draft of DUG letter

I have just updated the document in Annettes original post to the latest version she has sent me. Please read it again....

Oct 16, 2010

marke 686 posts

Topic: DUAG Committee / workstream 2

Hi Emma, comment 3 is a good idea ! I hadn't thought of that but it makes sense, it would be a good way of establishing local relationships between us and DUG members. i will add it to the document.

Oct 16, 2010

emmacool 17 posts

Topic: DUAG Committee / workstream 2

hey mark

my comments on work stream 2

1. i totally agree that not everything should go through dafne central as we are at the end of the day independant, also wouldnt a newsletter asking for permissio from dug members to be contacted be along the same lines as the letter that has just been produced?

2. how many newsletters a year? i would put myself forward to helpl with this once other issues have been sorted out

3. could the feedback from dug not be filtered back through duag members by area? thought it might helpl solve the potential problem of dafne central processing the information and being tied up time wise?

emma x

Oct 16, 2010

Dr Jez McCole 11 posts

Topic: Site Development / DAFNE Online iPhone application - help with content/design needed

Simon, the app is a treat to use; simple, effective and a great way to get the momentum back into carb counting. I believe the summary section is where the real potential lies, over and above what DAFNE can do in a paper diary. One simple idea (not so sure how simple it may be to implement) would be for the summary section to have some lines that split data by entry type, eg,
PAST 7 DAYS: (and then 14 and then 2 Cool

BREAKFAST AVERAGE 5.5
LUNCH AVERAGE 5.5
DINNER AVERAGE 5.5
BEDTIME AVERAGE 6.5

perfect diary that one, just like mine Smile

I like the current summaries and think they should stay, but data like the above can help someone think about ratios.

Thanks again Simon.
As a Doctor working in Primary Care and Diabetes I'd like to talk with you at some point about the wider platform development of this app and looking at some cetral funding somehow. I seriously see this as a way forward for the DAFNE program as a whole.

Jez

Oct 16, 2010

emmacool 17 posts

Topic: DUAG Committee / First draft of DUG letter

i agree with mark the letter looks great annette its just we sem to be having some miscommunication going on i thought under the work streams set up in the meeting we compose the letter to dug members telling them who we are and how we need there help that then gets passed on to dafne central they email it out and we wait for responses and act accordingly, also i thought we were all in agreement about using this forum? and use whatever contact details they provide to contact them for future help?

emma x

Oct 16, 2010

Simon 578 posts

Topic: Site Development / DAFNE Online iPhone application - help with content/design needed

Hi Thunderbolt,

Fair point about the site not reflecting the same bedtime as the app - I'm focusing on getting the app stable at the moment (we may have some good news on the in-app carb counting too so watch this space). With a busy day job schedule this means not much time to update the site. Rest assured it is our plan to release a new (better looking) version of the site in the not too distant future, with enhanced diary and other features.

On the auto-populate for BI, is there anything I can do to improve it for you?

Simon

Oct 16, 2010

ThunderBolt 28 posts

Topic: Site Development / DAFNE Online iPhone application - help with content/design needed

Hello again...

As per usual, top work on the updates and app as a whole. I'm having a few teething troubles with the auto BI, as I noticed a frew days back I'd apparently had 4 doses instead of the usual 2... Oops. That'll teach me to be such a lazy beggar. Heheh!

One thing I have noticed is that the bedtime feature - which works an absolute treat - isn't implemented on the results table online, so if you hit the pit at say 3am and test at the time, it still shows as the following day on your result table.

By no means a big thing, but can be a bit confusing if you aren't aware of the fact when you hand your sheets to your doctor.

Cheers!!!

Oct 16, 2010

Alann 12 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Android App

Another vote for an Android app

Oct 16, 2010

marke 686 posts

Topic: DUAG Committee / workstream 2

All, the workstream 2 document that Brian and I have produced, like the letter we would like everyones feedback on its contents. You can open it by clickingo on the link below:

Task 2 Doc

Oct 16, 2010

marke 686 posts

Topic: DUAG Committee / First draft of DUG letter

brian, the one you read IS the amended version, I just updated the link in the original post with the updated doc as its easier. Annette no I have not heard from Tony so no further updates have been applied.
I too thought DAFNE Central wanted to post the letters out, we just need to email it to Sharon and Gill, Gill agrees to send it and Sharon actually does it ;-) I think we only want email addresses from the ones in the DUG, anyone on DAFNEOnline we already have it. I don't see why we need phone numbers apart from people who are actually doing direct work with us and in that case we can ask for them as needed.
Annette you are doing a great job don't be disheartened, I too find it frustrating that we all agreed at the meeting to use this forum and then only a minority seem to be doing so and others say they want email now but didn't speak up at the meeting. Its like working with the swedish again, you agree a load of stuff at a meeting and then no-one does it because they didn't agree !

Oct 16, 2010

marke 686 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Dafne refresher courses

I don't think the refresher course is widely available at the moment it is still a 'trial' to see how well it works. Its interesting to hear about the drop-in idea I wonder if any other DAFNE centres do this. Anyone ?

Oct 15, 2010

Jennypenny 34 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Dafne refresher courses

Only did mine in june so dont really need a refresher course as yet , but what my diabetic clinic do is a dafne drop in on the last monday of each month and anyone who has attended a dafne course at the hospital can pop in meet other dafne people and get advice etc ....

Oct 15, 2010

Jennypenny 34 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Insulin Pumps

Good for you thunderbolt ,

lol at bad timimg im alaways doing things like that and then totally forget to ring when they are open lol

Oct 15, 2010

Annette Bell 72 posts

Topic: DUAG Committee / First draft of DUG letter

I realise we must have some contact details in order to send this letter, but I thought it was being posted out, and we were asking for e-mail addresses or maybe 'phone numbers if they don't have e-mail (unusual I know, but some people may not have e-mail). If you want to amend it to asking for other means of contact than addresses that's fine by me. I also thought central DAFNE was going to send it out so how do we get Gillian to look at it & arrange for this to happen?
Mark, I assume Tony has not yet sent you his ammendments by e-mail & that's why they don't yet appear on here?
Brian, I didn't get home to my computer until 23rd September so was hard pushed to get this done before 1st Oct but managed to get it on here by 28th Sept. I can do nothing more until the final draft is approved & we get whoever is supposed to be producing it & sending it out to do so. As you say, it was a total "shot in the dark" as I did not receive any help in response to my plea so just went ahead anyway.
I also don't know who they should send their responses to or by when, so have left that bit as ....... at the end of the letter.
Can you tell I'm getting a bit fed up with the whole thing?!!

Oct 15, 2010

ThunderBolt 28 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Insulin Pumps

Cheers Jenny.

I think I've finally made my mind up that I WILL give it a whirl. Another example of my rubbish timing as it's just too late to ring them and I've got a whole weekend in front of me to bottle it!

Oct 15, 2010

Brian Trench 17 posts

Topic: DUAG Committee / Diabetes UK Volunteer conference Scotland - DUAG attendance?

Peter makes a persuasive comment re selecting just this scottish event. I agree with his comment on the linking of both duag and dafneonline as the 2 are inextricably linked but we come back to the greographic concerns re our members. I would place this activity into our medium term goals and would hope that given time we could construct a roadshow program to visit all of these opportunities to spread our message.

Oct 15, 2010

Brian Trench 17 posts

Topic: DUAG Committee / First draft of DUG letter

Marke I have reviewed AB's letter but have not had sight of the subsequent amendments; however, under the list of aims we ask them to provide their contact details and as we have passed the letter to them either electonically or by snail mail then we must already have the contact details! With that one proviso I would like to see the document issued. Who is undertaking this role? When action completed we should post a message on both this forum and the duagonline link so that all can sight. I have noted Ian's comments about emails v forums and this may explain why there are only some posts on this medium and we could have the difficulty of falling between two stools! Is TD as enforcer content that progress is being made?

Oct 14, 2010

Aitchy 1 post

Topic: DAFNE Online Mobile / Rationale - Please read

I have aNokia 5800 Music Xpress.

Oct 14, 2010

addie 13 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Dafne refresher courses

Hi all

Anybody been on a DAFNE refresher course?

Was just wondering how useful they are and did anyone get any further benefit from attending.

Best wishes
Ad

Oct 13, 2010

grandma carol 61 posts

Topic: General Discussion / user to graduate

Hi jennifor well i just sent a message to Marke the admin i think he is. He got it sprted for me and now everything fine. Hope he gets it done for you Grandmacarol

Oct 18, 2010 Annette Bell 72 posts	Topic: DUAG Committee / workstream 2 I agree with Emma - aren't we already asking for permission & contact details in the letter I produced? Talking of which, does everyone approve of the latest version & should I send it to Gill for production as we are already behind on our target dates? I also think Emma's 3rd point is a good idea. Annette x

Oct 18, 2010 Jennypenny 34 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Dafne refresher courses its been going on for a couple of years and apprantly they get enough people going to keep carrying on with it

Oct 18, 2010 novorapidboi26 1,819 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Dafne refresher courses I cant see this picking up greatly, as people cant get the time off to attend.......... Constant liason with your diabetic team and a quick skim of the handbook is all it takes...... For me the dafne principals are simple, its the conastant battle with your own body thats the hard part...and this can be discussed with the HCPs as opposed to specifically DAFNE trained staff...

Oct 18, 2010 Benton Fred 7 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Dafne refresher courses Hi Ad Not familiar with DAFNE drop in. But i've got a refresher course on 1st November. I'll keep you psoted on how it goes. Fred

Oct 16, 2010 ThunderBolt 28 posts	Topic: Site Development / DAFNE Online iPhone application - help with content/design needed Cheers Simon... To be honest it's probably just me as I still can't seem to get into the habit of putting my needles in my pocket when I leave the house - or my blood test kit for that matter. If anything I'd suggest an option for auto-fill in the settings section similar to the one you did for bedtimes. Or maybe even (tech ignorance follows) a method of having the space blank until you tap BI and then it fills it in itself according to what's in the individuals settings. If I think of anything I'll let you know, but as I say, the way things are now are ace. The app v site bedtime thing isn't much of a problem as such. I just wanted to raise the subject to warn anyone doing a last minute print before a clinic visit. I was just assuming everyone else was as disorganised as me!?! Heheh! Re Dr Jez comments... Sounds like a stonking idea. Whatever you both decide I wish you well. Perhaps we could also look at providing diabetics with FREE iphones. Or is that pushing it a bit?

Oct 16, 2010 marke 686 posts	Topic: DUAG Committee / First draft of DUG letter I have just updated the document in Annettes original post to the latest version she has sent me. Please read it again....

Oct 16, 2010 marke 686 posts	Topic: DUAG Committee / workstream 2 Hi Emma, comment 3 is a good idea ! I hadn't thought of that but it makes sense, it would be a good way of establishing local relationships between us and DUG members. i will add it to the document.

Oct 16, 2010 emmacool 17 posts	Topic: DUAG Committee / workstream 2 hey mark my comments on work stream 2 1. i totally agree that not everything should go through dafne central as we are at the end of the day independant, also wouldnt a newsletter asking for permissio from dug members to be contacted be along the same lines as the letter that has just been produced? 2. how many newsletters a year? i would put myself forward to helpl with this once other issues have been sorted out 3. could the feedback from dug not be filtered back through duag members by area? thought it might helpl solve the potential problem of dafne central processing the information and being tied up time wise? emma x

Oct 16, 2010 Dr Jez McCole 11 posts	Topic: Site Development / DAFNE Online iPhone application - help with content/design needed Simon, the app is a treat to use; simple, effective and a great way to get the momentum back into carb counting. I believe the summary section is where the real potential lies, over and above what DAFNE can do in a paper diary. One simple idea (not so sure how simple it may be to implement) would be for the summary section to have some lines that split data by entry type, eg, PAST 7 DAYS: (and then 14 and then 2 BREAKFAST AVERAGE 5.5 LUNCH AVERAGE 5.5 DINNER AVERAGE 5.5 BEDTIME AVERAGE 6.5 perfect diary that one, just like mine I like the current summaries and think they should stay, but data like the above can help someone think about ratios. Thanks again Simon. As a Doctor working in Primary Care and Diabetes I'd like to talk with you at some point about the wider platform development of this app and looking at some cetral funding somehow. I seriously see this as a way forward for the DAFNE program as a whole. Jez

Oct 16, 2010 emmacool 17 posts	Topic: DUAG Committee / First draft of DUG letter i agree with mark the letter looks great annette its just we sem to be having some miscommunication going on i thought under the work streams set up in the meeting we compose the letter to dug members telling them who we are and how we need there help that then gets passed on to dafne central they email it out and we wait for responses and act accordingly, also i thought we were all in agreement about using this forum? and use whatever contact details they provide to contact them for future help? emma x

Oct 16, 2010 Simon 578 posts	Topic: Site Development / DAFNE Online iPhone application - help with content/design needed Hi Thunderbolt, Fair point about the site not reflecting the same bedtime as the app - I'm focusing on getting the app stable at the moment (we may have some good news on the in-app carb counting too so watch this space). With a busy day job schedule this means not much time to update the site. Rest assured it is our plan to release a new (better looking) version of the site in the not too distant future, with enhanced diary and other features. On the auto-populate for BI, is there anything I can do to improve it for you? Simon

Oct 16, 2010 ThunderBolt 28 posts	Topic: Site Development / DAFNE Online iPhone application - help with content/design needed Hello again... As per usual, top work on the updates and app as a whole. I'm having a few teething troubles with the auto BI, as I noticed a frew days back I'd apparently had 4 doses instead of the usual 2... Oops. That'll teach me to be such a lazy beggar. Heheh! One thing I have noticed is that the bedtime feature - which works an absolute treat - isn't implemented on the results table online, so if you hit the pit at say 3am and test at the time, it still shows as the following day on your result table. By no means a big thing, but can be a bit confusing if you aren't aware of the fact when you hand your sheets to your doctor. Cheers!!!

Oct 16, 2010 Alann 12 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Android App Another vote for an Android app

Oct 16, 2010 marke 686 posts	Topic: DUAG Committee / workstream 2 All, the workstream 2 document that Brian and I have produced, like the letter we would like everyones feedback on its contents. You can open it by clickingo on the link below: Task 2 Doc

Oct 16, 2010 marke 686 posts	Topic: DUAG Committee / First draft of DUG letter brian, the one you read IS the amended version, I just updated the link in the original post with the updated doc as its easier. Annette no I have not heard from Tony so no further updates have been applied. I too thought DAFNE Central wanted to post the letters out, we just need to email it to Sharon and Gill, Gill agrees to send it and Sharon actually does it ;-) I think we only want email addresses from the ones in the DUG, anyone on DAFNEOnline we already have it. I don't see why we need phone numbers apart from people who are actually doing direct work with us and in that case we can ask for them as needed. Annette you are doing a great job don't be disheartened, I too find it frustrating that we all agreed at the meeting to use this forum and then only a minority seem to be doing so and others say they want email now but didn't speak up at the meeting. Its like working with the swedish again, you agree a load of stuff at a meeting and then no-one does it because they didn't agree !

Oct 16, 2010 marke 686 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Dafne refresher courses I don't think the refresher course is widely available at the moment it is still a 'trial' to see how well it works. Its interesting to hear about the drop-in idea I wonder if any other DAFNE centres do this. Anyone ?

Oct 15, 2010 Jennypenny 34 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Dafne refresher courses Only did mine in june so dont really need a refresher course as yet , but what my diabetic clinic do is a dafne drop in on the last monday of each month and anyone who has attended a dafne course at the hospital can pop in meet other dafne people and get advice etc ....

Oct 15, 2010 Jennypenny 34 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Insulin Pumps Good for you thunderbolt , lol at bad timimg im alaways doing things like that and then totally forget to ring when they are open lol

Oct 15, 2010 Annette Bell 72 posts	Topic: DUAG Committee / First draft of DUG letter I realise we must have some contact details in order to send this letter, but I thought it was being posted out, and we were asking for e-mail addresses or maybe 'phone numbers if they don't have e-mail (unusual I know, but some people may not have e-mail). If you want to amend it to asking for other means of contact than addresses that's fine by me. I also thought central DAFNE was going to send it out so how do we get Gillian to look at it & arrange for this to happen? Mark, I assume Tony has not yet sent you his ammendments by e-mail & that's why they don't yet appear on here? Brian, I didn't get home to my computer until 23rd September so was hard pushed to get this done before 1st Oct but managed to get it on here by 28th Sept. I can do nothing more until the final draft is approved & we get whoever is supposed to be producing it & sending it out to do so. As you say, it was a total "shot in the dark" as I did not receive any help in response to my plea so just went ahead anyway. I also don't know who they should send their responses to or by when, so have left that bit as ....... at the end of the letter. Can you tell I'm getting a bit fed up with the whole thing?!!

Oct 15, 2010 ThunderBolt 28 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Insulin Pumps Cheers Jenny. I think I've finally made my mind up that I WILL give it a whirl. Another example of my rubbish timing as it's just too late to ring them and I've got a whole weekend in front of me to bottle it!

Oct 15, 2010 Brian Trench 17 posts	Topic: DUAG Committee / Diabetes UK Volunteer conference Scotland - DUAG attendance? Peter makes a persuasive comment re selecting just this scottish event. I agree with his comment on the linking of both duag and dafneonline as the 2 are inextricably linked but we come back to the greographic concerns re our members. I would place this activity into our medium term goals and would hope that given time we could construct a roadshow program to visit all of these opportunities to spread our message.

Oct 15, 2010 Brian Trench 17 posts	Topic: DUAG Committee / First draft of DUG letter Marke I have reviewed AB's letter but have not had sight of the subsequent amendments; however, under the list of aims we ask them to provide their contact details and as we have passed the letter to them either electonically or by snail mail then we must already have the contact details! With that one proviso I would like to see the document issued. Who is undertaking this role? When action completed we should post a message on both this forum and the duagonline link so that all can sight. I have noted Ian's comments about emails v forums and this may explain why there are only some posts on this medium and we could have the difficulty of falling between two stools! Is TD as enforcer content that progress is being made?

Oct 14, 2010 Aitchy 1 post	Topic: DAFNE Online Mobile / Rationale - Please read I have aNokia 5800 Music Xpress.

Oct 14, 2010 addie 13 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Dafne refresher courses Hi all Anybody been on a DAFNE refresher course? Was just wondering how useful they are and did anyone get any further benefit from attending. Best wishes Ad

Oct 13, 2010 grandma carol 61 posts	Topic: General Discussion / user to graduate Hi jennifor well i just sent a message to Marke the admin i think he is. He got it sprted for me and now everything fine. Hope he gets it done for you Grandmacarol