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Leeds based healthcare specialist provides Diabetes peer support platform for young people

Alexis Wilson-Barrett by Alexis Wilson-Barrett
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Leeds based healthcare specialist provides Diabetes peer support platform for young people
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The pandemic has taken on a huge toll on the health sector this year, and the healthcare industry has had to pivot and adapt to the lockdown restrictions. This is especially important for clinics and support networks, who are no longer able to offer patients and families face to face support. 

This Self Care Week (16-22 Nov), an annual awareness week to increase people’s ability to look after their own health and wellbeing, Leeds-based DigiBete is promoting their support tool to help young people and families affected by Type 1 Diabetes. 

Born out of founder Maddie Julien’s personal experience of being a mother of a child with Type 1 Diabetes, DigiBete is a digital platform that helps support children, young people and families to self-manage their own diabetes and includes educational resources and peer to peer support. DigiBete was created in partnership with Leeds Children’s Hospital and is now part-funded by the NHS Diabetes Programme. 

The DigiBete journey accelerated when Maddie enrolled on the Propel@YH programme, Yorkshire and Humber’s first regional digital health accelerator, which supports organisations from across the world to bring their innovative digital health solutions to the region’s patients and the wider health economy. Since completing the programme in 2019, DigiBete has become a vital support for families and new patients and has been adopted by 90% of paediatric clinics across England and Wales. The DigiBete platform is also being used in over 150 countries around the world. 

In response to the pandemic and many clinics limiting the number of appointments available to patients, DigiBete has developed a digital peer support element on the app, to offer young people the much-needed support they require. New patients can be added to groups or teams, based on commonalities, which then allows them to have a more personalised support network. 

The new support functionality has already played a key part in helping young people manage the condition through the pandemic, including Benji, 13. Benji was diagnosed when he was 9 years old. He is now 13 and is keen to inspire other young people living with the challenges of type 1 diabetes. Benji discussed his diagnosis: “Initially the GP mis-diagnosed me with depression. I’d been going to the doctors a lot because I was wetting the bed so much and I was losing weight. When I was actually diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes, I was so poorly that the ICU had to come down to me as I was going into organ failure”. 

Like many young people living with Type 1 Diabetes, it’s been a really challenging journey for Benji, but he has found strength in his situation. He reflected: “DigiBete has helped me express my thoughts about being a teenager with Type 1 Diabetes. I also have a really great friend called Byron who features in my awareness video for World Diabetes Day and his Mum has Type 1 too so he knows how to help me”. Benji added that one real advantage of using the DigiBete platform is that he feels he “can open up, talk to anyone in my diabetes clinic and I feel part of the conversation”.

Maddie Julien, founder of DigiBete said: “No one could have predicted the wider implications that the pandemic could have on healthcare and wellbeing providers, so this year Self Care Week feels more important than ever. We are so pleased to offer this support element to our customers, as we know just how important having someone to talk to and answer any particular daunting questions someone might have about the journey of managing a Diabetes diagnosis”. 

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Alexis Wilson-Barrett is a Co-Founder of The Yorkshire Press and works as our Editor for North and East Yorkshire. She studied for her BA (Hons) at the University of Bradford and now works on a freelance basis from her home in Skipton, offering content and marketing support to businesses across the UK

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