Children’s Diabetes
Children’s Diabetes
If you, a family member, or friend have been diagnosed with diabetes, this webpage provides information about our Children's Diabetes team, their services, and resources to help manage diabetes .
Meet the team
Meet the team
The Children's Diabetes team support children, young people and families who live with diabetes.
Top row left to right: Dr Grove, Consultant, Dr Saunders, Consultant, Dr Allagoa, Consultant, Dr Gardiner, Consultant, Dr Hemming, Consultant.
Middle rows left to right: Becky Leeming, Diabetes Nurse, Kate Scott, Diabetes Nurse, Kayleigh Rose, Diabetes, Nurse, Katie Anderson, Diabetes Nurse,Lundsey Grundy, Diabetes Nurse, Nina Jackson, Diabetes Dietitian, Jenny Coupland, Diabetes Dietitian, Nicky Godley, Dietitian, Steph Waters, Nursing Associate.
Bottom row left to right: Shaeen Hussain, Senior Diabetic Clinic Assistant, Jess West, Health Care Assistant, Rachel Mumford, Clinical Psychologist, Julie Thompson, Coordinator, Ibreeze Ahmed, Clinical Psychologist.
Our team's aim:
Our team will offer every child and young person with diabetes, along with their carers, a personalised education and skills programme. This will be tailored to their needs, abilities, and goals, helping them manage their diabetes from childhood through to independent adulthood. We will work in partnership with them, using age-appropriate and evidence-based methods, to provide consistent care across our network.
Services Provided by Our Team
Our team offers:
- Up-to-date, accurate , and consistent information about diabetes.
- Support for children, young people, and families in managing diabetes.
- Multidisciplinary team (MDT) diabetes clinic appointments every 3 months with a consultant, nurse, and dietitian.
- Nurse clinics.
- Personalised dietitian support.
- Diabetes psychology support if needed.
- 24-hour on-call service for families.
Where can you access this service?
Our clinics are held at the Children's Outpatients at:
Dewsbury and District Hospital
Pinderfields Hospital
Pontefract Hospital
We also offer support at home, school, and via phone calls.
Contact details
For routine enquires Monday to Friday 8.30am-4.30pm.
Pontefract & Wakefield Office tel: 01924 543380
| Clinical Nurse Specialist in Paediatric Diabetes | Contact details |
| Kate Scott and Becky Leeming (Dewsbury) Single Point of Contact (SPOC) | 03003 045555 |
| Lindsay Grundy (Pontefract) 0-15 years | Mobile: 07595792655 |
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Katie Anderson (Wakefield) 0-15 years
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Mobile: 07899901169 |
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Kayleigh Woodward (Wakefield) Transition age 16-19 years
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Mobile: 07514722688 |
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Steph Waters (Ponetfract and Wakefield) |
Mobile: 07808524096 |
| Dietitians office |
01924 816 046
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EMERGENCY ADVICE LINE
Please telephone: 01924 541008 |
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Open daily 7am to 8pm including bank holidays and weekends.
Please leave a name and full contact number and a member of the Paediatric Diabetes team will contact you. If they have not returned your call within 20 minutes please ring back.
After 8pm call 01924 541008 and ask to speak to the Paediatric Registrar.
This service should be used for urgent advice on management of:
If you are unable to reach the above, then contact your GP, NHS 111 service (by dialling 111) or the A&E Department.
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Useful information for patients
Low blood glucose levels
Living with diabetes workbook
Food & nutrition
- Healthy eating and carbohydrate counting pdf
- Under Fives Food Activity and Diabetes.pdf
- Snacks for children and young people with diabetes.pdf
- Insulin Pump Bolus Options and glycaemic index.pdf
- Carb counting and insulin adjustment when eating out.pdf
Digibete carb counting videos from 'Type 1 Kidz Gang and DigiBete'
Physical activity and exercise
- Exercise and type 1 Diabetes.pdf
- Building muscle mass
- Enjoy being active with Type 1 Diabetes leaflets
- This girl can
- 10 minute workouts NHS
- Couch to fitness
- Betterhealth Healthier families shake up
- The body coach (YouTube)
- Park run
- Teen sleep hub
School
- My Diabetes Social Story
- My Diabetes Social Story Interactive Worksheet
- Useful links for schools (digibete)
- Practical Skills - DigiBete School and Community Training Platform
Digibete schools resources
Pumps and devices
- Omnipod 5 presentation video.
- Omnipod 5 training booklet
- Medtronic Minimed 780G system with SmartGuard technology Top Tips.pdf
- Medtronic Minimed training booklet
- CamAPS closed loops
South Asian
Healthy eating
British dietetic resources:
Recipes- healthy and affordable:
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- Let’s get cooking
- Recipes approved by a specialist tea m of dietitians.
- Full time meals
- Cooking on a bootstrap
- Better Health Healthier fam i lies:have ways to eat well and move more.
- Portion sizes: Portion wise resources. , Love Food Hate Waste / Preventing food waste
- Fussy eating short video.
- Cholesterol dietary advice: Heart UK
- Moving medicine : has easy to understand information to help motivate people to become more active.
- Weight management services available : Aspire (Wak e field Council) , Complications of Excess Weight (CEW) service
Coeliac Disease
Type 2 diabetes
Events
The Diabetes Team would like to invite everyone under our care who is aged between 9-17 years to our LaserZone Christmas Party!
- Date: Thursday 5 December 2024
- Time: 3.40pm to 6.00pm
- Venue: Xscape, Castleford
The cost will be £5 per person, which you will need to send with the enclosed forms below. The afternoon will include:
- 3 games
- Pizza
- Party bag
You will need to bring your blood testing kit and your teatime insulin.
Please wear flat sensible shoes/trainers.
To book your place, please call the diabetes team on 01924 543380 or text Locala chat health number on 07312 263031.
Please book your place by Friday 25 November and complete the following form, returning to:
Paediatric Diabetes Team, 20-22 Barr Lane, Wakefield WF1 4AD
christmas invite forms.pdf[pdf] 202KB
Places will be allocated on a first come, first serve basis.
Feedback
Feedback from clinic appointments
If I, or my child, have any worries they don't ever hesitate answering any questions no matter how simple they may be and that's what I really like about the diabetes team. They are very understanding and helpful with any problems or worries we have.
It is like seeing family. They know me well and collaborate well to answer questions/plan next steps etc. They are very supportive and proactive.
Feedback from a parent about a 'Cook and Eat' event organised by the Children’s Diabetes team
The best thing about the session was the support given to us today as novices on this vital issue and seeing other children/adults dealing with this issues – a great learning curve. The staff were so supportive of everyone.
Next Steps group feedback
Feedback from South Asian diabetes group session
Useful links
Wakefield Families Together - For family support across Wakefield, Pontefract and Castleford.
Dewsbury and Wakefield Young Diabetics aims to support families whose lives have been touched by diabetes. We organise regular meetings and information sessions and each year try to arrange activities to help children and families learn about the illness.
Digibete is a fantastic resource that has been developed by one of our patient families. It is a video platform designed to help families self-manage Type 1 diabetes and also prepare them for what to expect when they come to clinic for the first time.
Including: lipohypotrophy, injection sites and newly diagnosed information. Watch this video on how to give an injection of glucagon.
CYPDN is a national network of families and diabetes healthcare providers, all working towards a standardised approach to care for children and young people with Type 1 diabetes. Since it was established in 2010 we have seen a significant improvement in HbA1c levels.
JDRF is a global charity dedicated to funding research and providing support for children and young people with Type 1 diabetes.
Diabetes UK is the largest charity focussed on diabetes research in the UK. It provides information and support for people with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.
Locala provides the community care for North Kirklees.
Goals of diabetes education is a structured education programme created by Novo Nordisk. It is divided into 6 age groups, designed to provide an overview of key facts that patients and their families should understand and be able to implement as they progress from diagnosis through to transition to the adult service.
West Yorkshire Healthier Together is a NHS organisation with the goal to improve the health of babies, children and young people throughout West Yorkshire.