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Type 2 Diabetes Management

A target agreed with your clinician, a steady rhythm of HbA1c tests, eye and foot checks, medicine routines, and the food and movement habits that bring the numbers down.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Type 2 Diabetes Management, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

Before you start: this plan is general information to help you organise your own health. It is not medical advice and does not replace a doctor, nurse, pharmacist or other qualified professional. Check any change to treatment, medicine or diet with them first, and get urgent care if you feel unwell.

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🩺 Physical Health

Type 2 Diabetes Management

Living well with type 2 diabetes or prediabetes: glucose monitoring, HbA1c targets, medication, foot and eye checks, and the habits that bring numbers down.

  1. Making sense of your diagnosis result
  2. Agreeing your personal HbA1c target
  3. Diabetes care team contact sheet
  4. Checking which yearly diabetes checks you have had
  5. Diabetes results log
  6. Deciding whether you need to test glucose at home
  7. Hypo plan for medicines that can cause lows
  8. Structured diabetes education course
  9. Driving, work and insurance check after diagnosis
  10. Lifestyle-first or medicine-now conversation
  11. HbA1c test rhythm
  12. Annual diabetes review
  13. Yearly diabetic eye screening
  14. Annual foot risk check with a clinician
  15. Daily foot look routine
  16. Daily diabetes medicine routine
  17. Home glucose testing routine
  18. Monthly diabetes numbers review
  19. Testing supplies and repeat prescription reorder
  20. Weekly carbohydrate-aware meal plan
  21. Walk after the main meal
  22. Carbohydrates, where they hide and how much
  23. Reading food labels for carbohydrate and sugar
  24. How your diabetes medicines work
  25. Paired testing to see what a meal does
  26. Complications explained, and the checks that catch them
  27. Alcohol and blood glucose
  28. Exercise and glucose, what to expect
  29. Spotting signs of high blood glucose
  30. Adding a second diabetes medicine
  31. First eight weeks on a new diabetes medicine
  32. Remission conversation and programme decision
  33. Swapping sugary drinks and hidden sugars
  34. Strength sessions twice a week
  35. Preparing for a conversation about insulin
  36. Sick day rules plan
  37. Follow-up after a raised HbA1c result
  38. Travelling with diabetes medicines and supplies
  39. Fasting for religious observance with diabetes
  40. Diabetes plan before a procedure or scan
  41. Festive season and eating out plan
  42. Prediabetes, a year to bring the numbers back
  43. Type 2 diabetes in later life, fewer hypos and falls
  44. Helping a parent manage type 2 diabetes
  45. After gestational diabetes, yearly screening
  46. Planning a pregnancy with type 2 diabetes
  47. Trial of a continuous glucose sensor
  48. Two-year trend review of HbA1c and weight
  49. Written diabetes self-management plan
  50. Peer support and patient voice in diabetes care

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Making sense of your diagnosis result

Many people leave the appointment knowing only that they have diabetes or prediabetes, without the number that put them there or what it measures. HbA1c reflects your average blood glucose over roughly the last two to three months, and knowing your starting figure is what every later result will be compared against.

First tasks

  • Find your diagnosis HbA1c result on the patient portal or ask the practice for it
  • Write the figure, its units and the test date on one page
  • List the questions the diagnosis appointment left unanswered
  • Ask the practice nurse to go through the result with you

Agreeing your personal HbA1c target

Targets for HbA1c are individual: a younger person newly diagnosed may be aiming lower than an older person on medicines that can cause hypos. Agreeing a written target with your clinician turns each result into a clear question of on track or not, and stops you chasing a number that was never meant for you.

First tasks

  • Ask your clinician what HbA1c target they suggest for you and why
  • Ask what would make them change that target
  • Write the target and the reason at the top of your results log
  • Confirm the target still fits at the annual review @recurring(yearly)

Diabetes care team contact sheet

Diabetes care is spread across several people: the practice nurse, your doctor, a pharmacist, the eye screening service, a podiatrist, perhaps a dietitian or a specialist nurse. One sheet with names, numbers and what each is for means you ring the right person first time, and so can anyone helping you.

First tasks

  • List everyone who has seen you about your diabetes in the past year
  • Add a phone number or portal route for each person
  • Add the out-of-hours advice number at the bottom
  • Update names and numbers on the sheet @recurring(yearly)

Make it yours.

Install Type 2 Diabetes Management, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Blueprints are general information to help you organise your own work. They are not medical, financial, legal or other professional advice. See the Terms.