Living with Diabetes 48 - Final Panel on Challenges with Diabetes

We explore the launch of a new leaflet on kidney and heart health produced with the support of Kidney Research UK. We hear from a panel consisting of the leaflet’s author, Professor Janaka Karalliedde, Consultant Physician in Diabetes, Endocrinology and Internal Medicine at Guy’s and St Thomas Hospital in London; Swati Bhagat-Jones, the lead for multiple long-term conditions at Kidney Research UK; Daniel Newman, a patient advocate living with type-1 diabetes who has undergone a kidney transplant; and Cardiff-based GP, Dr Sarah Davies, who has a special interest in diabetes.

We talk with Simon McKee, who has lived with type 1 diabetes all his life. He hasn’t let the condition stand in the way of adventure, having experienced some of the most extreme environments on the plant, from racing across oceans, to climbing the highest mountains and trekking across a polar ice-cap. It hasn’t always been easy and has now left investment banking to run a company, Diabetes Take Control.

We talk to Laura Spence, a midwife with ADHD who wants to improve the experience of pregnancy, birth and early parenthood for neurodivergent people. She joined us online from Northern Ireland. This is the seventh episode of eight special programmes, in our Living with Diabetes series, which takes an in depth look at women’s health issues. Our women’s health series is supported by Abbott.