Cares

Cares is a free online national diabetes care home training programme.

This programme is suitable for individuals who support people living with diabetes in either a care home or home care environment in the UK, such as care home staff and community care teams, including registered nurses and non-registered practitioners (HCAs) or social care workers.

What to expect from the training programme:

The training programme consists of a recorded session, four self-led online learning modules and mentoring support through a virtual discussion forum.

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  • Learn more about monitoring diabetes, medications, reducing the risk of hospital admission from high and low blood glucose.

  • Learn more about palliative and end of life care, psychological wellbeing, mental health, and learning disabilities.

  • This online learning module will help individuals working within health and social care to:

    • Understand about Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM).

    • Understand the difference between blood glucose monitoring and CGM.

    • Identify who can access CGM.

    • Identify the different CGM devices available.

    • Learn about the FreeStyle Libre 2 Plus CGM system.

    • Learn how to set up and support service users with the FreeStyle Libre 2 Plus.

To register: HELM LMS

All programmes are certificated with CPD hours.