Involving People With Diabetes

Across southeast London, NHS organisations are working with local partner organisations including local authorities, voluntary and community sector organisations and GPs to help improve services and outcomes for people living with diabetes.

NHS Southeast London CCG (SEL CCG) is looking for two people and two deputies living with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes from each of the boroughs in southeast London (Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark) to form a south east London wide group of people living with diabetes to work with the programme structures at south east London level and in the relevant boroughs and alongside localised borough specific work.

The South East London Diabetes and Obesity Delivery Board aim to bring together NHS and other partners across south east London to develop a vision and model of care for diabetes and obesity services that will improve outcomes, reduce health inequalities, look at prevention and specialist care and how we can best support people to manage their care. The Board seeks to ensure that services for people living with diabetes and/or obesity wrap around the person, are culturally appropriate and bring care as close to home as possible.

There is more detail about these roles in the role outlines below.

If you would like to find out more please contact the engagement team at selccg.engagement@nhs.net who will liaise with the relevant team to contact you directly.

If you are interested in one of the roles please fill in the expression of interest form and the equality monitoring form and email selccg.engagement@nhs.net by 9 am on 6 September 2021. 

The timelines of the process are below:

• 6 September – closing date for receipt of expressions of interest
• Week of 13 September – conversations between people who have put themselves forward at borough level with borough diabetes and engagement leads to outline borough arrangements and to confirm borough people with lived experience of diabetes who will join the south-east London group
• Week of 20 September – a meeting of all agreed borough members with diabetes as the south-east London group with key members of the South East London Diabetes and Obesity Delivery Board to outline and their work and to ask for clarification of expressions of interest in being a member of the delivery board.
• Week of 27 September  – conversations between people who have put themselves forward for the role of South East London Diabetes and Obesity Delivery Board and south-east London diabetes and engagement leads to confirm members on the board.
• The date of the South East London Diabetes and Obesity Delivery Board is yet to  be confirmed but is likely to be late September / early October

Role outline of a community member with diabetes in Bromley.

Find more information here.