Sponsored by Abbott Diabetes Care, each on-demand skills based webinar is guided by Cathe Gaskell and Su Down, to support and upskill diabetes professionals during Covid-19
Please note, this event is designed for use by NHS Healthcare Professionals only. If you would like to access this webinar, please email bookings@sbk-healthcare.co.uk and we will send you the link to view.
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Benefit from an experienced speaker and a host who understand your pressures
Using evidence-based techniques, you will be able to:
Watch these three on-demand NHS webinars from the comfort of your own home
Created specifically to support NHS Diabetes staff in your working life and wellbeing, plus benefit from:
Su has specialised in diabetes for 25 years and since 2005 has held the
position of Diabetes Nurse Consultant in Somerset. She has played a key
role in leading the service through a complete redesign and implementing
a community-based team of diabetes specialist nurses and specialist
dietitians.
Su’s particular interests are in elderly care, end-of-life care, insulin
safety, injection technique, hypoglycaemia and pregnancy care. In her
role as Clinical Lead for the intermediate service, she is responsible
for the clinical supervision of the nursing team and the service is
commissioned to deliver healthcare professional education to primary
care, to the community nursing service and to care homes. The service
also delivers group education to those with type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
Nationally, Su sits on the board of the Forum for Injection Technique
and has developed diabetes modules for the social care sector in
conjunction with Skills for Care. She is also on an international board
looking to explore the challenges in early conversations between
clinicians and people with diabetes. She presented this work at the
recent EASD conference. She has had work published on topics including
service redesign, the future role of specialist nurses, innovative
commissioning, injection technique and hypoglycaemia unawareness.
Managing Director Cathe Gaskell has worked within healthcare for nearly 30 years. She initially trained as a nurse within mental health and has worked either on or with Boards since 1999.
Cathe has been working as a consultant/ independent advisor across healthcare since 2009 and has worked with over 60 organisations.
Cathe specialises in change management by helping organisations with capacity or cultural issues in areas such as governance and compliance, complaints and patient experience and using creative solutions to engage staff to improve services to patients.
Equally comfortable working at ” board or ward levels ” Cathe specialises in leading quality assurance, inspection of services, production of action and business plans, and the delivery of high quality training workshops.
She has a strong interest in resolving Bullying and Harassment issues and working with teams to improve internal communications.