Diabetes UK

DIABETES UK (Scotland)

Diabetes UK Scotland is the leading charity working for people with diabetes in Scotland – funding research, campaigning and influencing and providing care and support for people living with the condition.

Around 193,000 people in Scotland have been diagnosed with diabetes and tens of thousands have the condition but don’t know it yet.

A message from their Director

“If I could change one thing about the diabetes care and support I receive it would be to make myself understood”. These are the words of a person with diabetes responding to an opportunity to say something about themselves and their diabetes care. Amidst the complexity of national frameworks, clinical networks, standards and priorities the words serve as a reminder that understanding the person with diabetes and creating the conditions for dialogue within services is key to achieving successful outcomes.

For Diabetes UK Scotland, the voice of the person with diabetes is at the heart of what we do. We are, first and foremost, an organisation of people with diabetes and their carers.

For more information please visit their website here.