Type 2 Diabetes: How Community Pharmacy can help with remission
A community Pharmacy based 12 week programme entitled Portglenone Diabetes Partnership (PDP), for 10 people with type 2 diabetes with the aim of helping them achieve better control &/or reversal of this condition; provide that they were willing to:
* Make changes to their nutritional intake
* Increase their physical activity levels
* Manage their stress better
By 12 weeks our aims were to achieve at least one of the following objectives:
* A decrease in HBA1c to 6.5% (48 mmol/mol) or lower
* A 5% decrease in weight and/or waist measurement
* A reduction in the required dose of medicines required for hyperglycaemia as determined by the person's Diabetic nurse or GP
* An improvement in a validated measure of psychological health
We ran it in 2018 & 2019 with positive outcomes and now are planning for scale & spread in conjunction with 6 other pharmacies.