Overview
The aims of this engagement were as follows:
- To explore public awareness and understanding of Type 2 Diabetes, and to learn how this could be improved.
- To understand how people who have been diagnosed with prediabetes are being supported by primary care services.
- To identify how people with a diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes are being supported by primary care services to self-manage their condition.
- To propose recommendations to the Integrated Care Board Primary Care Board.
Publication date
October 2024
Key findings
There were 216 responses to this survey.
- Knowledge and awareness
- Accessing support
- NHS Health Check
- Key finding: people at risk
- NHS diabetes prevention programme
- Key findings: people with diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes
- DESMOND programme
- Self management
- Annual diabetes review
- Education
- Key findings: healthy lifestyles
- Conclusion and recommendations
Additional information
Survey by Healthwatch Hertfordshire.
Healthwatch Hertfordshire and Healthwatch Essex have been commissioned by the Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB) Primary Care Workstream to undertake a series of engagement projects.
The aims of the engagement projects include:
- Gathering lived experiences to feed directly into the Hertfordshire and West Essex ICS Primary Care Workstream.
- Supporting and enabling the Hertfordshire and West Essex ICS to achieve wider participant engagement.
- Engaging patients and the public on programmes covering key priorities and areas of importance at a regional and local level.
- Making recommendations to the Hertfordshire and West Essex ICS Primary Care Workstream so improvements can be implemented.