Diabetes Awareness month 2018 - impact on family & support networks

Type 2 diabetes affects not only the sufferer but their family and their whole network of support.

November 2018 has seen the annual reflection on type 2 diabetes and this year looking at the impact diabetes has on the whole, not just the sufferer.

Diabetes costs the NHS £billions yet is mostly preventable.

In this latest Lipotrim blog post we look at World Diabetes Day and Diabetes awareness month, and how diabetes is affecting many people's lives negatively.

From Travel and Health Insurance, to the terrible medical complications (including amputations!) type 2 diabetes affects many people unnecessarily.

Type 2 diabetes is mainly a preventable condition.
Type 2 diabetes is often referred to as a "lifestyle disease".

So why oh why are we not doing more to prevent and treat type 2 diabetes?

Take a look at the full post where we discuss these issues and how pharmacy has the answer...

Call the Lipotrim helpline 0800 413 735 if you would like further advice

Pharmacy can help stop the amputation epidemic

Amputations required through the progression of Type 2 diabetes is nearing epidemic levels - it is time we took weight loss seriously. 

Both Type 2 diabetes and the subsequent amputations are mostly preventable.

This is a fact known throughout the medical and clinical world.


The lack of true weight management as a first-line intervention is a blight on our society. Type 2 diabetics can be treated more effectively, potentially stopping the need for progressive medication and ultimately preventing amputations.

Pharmacy has the expertise and availability to turn the tide on this medievil procedure.

Take a look at our blog post, detailing the issues that surround type 2 diabetes and in particular amputations. We look at the amputation statistics and how pharmacy can solve the amputation issue.

Call the Lipotrim helpline 0800 413 735 if you would like further advice

Pharmacy can save the Ireland healthcare service now

With the Ireland healthcare service in turmoil, grassroots recruitment issues and limited bed capacity in secondary care are once again taking the brunt of the anger.

Recently Emily O’Conor wrote in the Irish Times an impassioned article titled:

Emergency staff work hard enough – it’s the system that’s not working
Government needs to focus on recruitment and bed capacity to solve crisis

The demand being placed on the financially stretched Ireland healthcare service is immense and no wonder the results were far from excellent in the first National Patient Experience Survey (May 2017).

Pharmacy can take the lead.

Read more about the issues in the Ireland healthcare service and how pharmacy has an opportunity to lead change here...

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