Friday 26 April 2024
Internal Reference Number: FOI_6321
Date Request Received: 11/10/2021 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 02/11/2021 00:00:00
This response was sent via: By Email
Request Summary: Paediatric Diabetes Services
Request Category: Students (Educational)
| Question Number 1: Number of Whole Time Equivalent (WTE) Paediatric Diabetes consultant posts in place for your Paediatric Diabetes service | |
| Answer To Question 1: 0.3 wte paediatric consultants | |
| Question Number 2: Number of WTE nursing posts, and their bands, currently in place specifically for your Paediatric Diabetes service. | |
| Answer To Question 2: Band 7 = 1.6 wte Band 6 = 0.8 wte | |
| Question Number 3: Number of WTE HCA posts currently in place specifically for your Paediatric Diabetes service. | |
| Answer To Question 3: no HCA posts = 0 wte | |
| Question Number 4: Number of WTE Psychologist posts, and their bands, currently in place specifically for your Paediatric Diabetes service. | |
| Answer To Question 4: 0.2 wte psychology band 8 | |
| Question Number 5: Number of WTE Dietician posts, and their bands, currently in place specifically for your Paediatric Diabetes service. | |
| Answer To Question 5: 0.8 wte dietitian band 7 | |
| Question Number 6: Number of WTE Social Worker posts, and their bands, currently in place specifically for your Paediatric Diabetes service. | |
| Answer To Question 6: None | |
| Question Number 7: Number of WTE Family Support Worker posts, and their bands, currently in place specifically for your Paediatric Diabetes service. | |
| Answer To Question 7: None | |
| Question Number 8: Any other staffing roles within your Paediatric Diabetes service? What are they? What are the whole time equivalents? and what benefits do you feel they provide to the patients? | |
| Answer To Question 8: 0.8 wte band 4 diabetes team administrator The team administrator is the first point of contact for anything non urgent for patients. She monitors our team email address, organises clinics and reminds patients when their appointments are. She manages our patient information and ensures that all patients receive the right information at the right time (either via email, hard copy, digibete notifications). She organises peer support events. She also manages the day to day organisation of the service including capturing data for NPDA – so that the clinical members of the diabetes team are freed up to spend more time on direct patient care. | |
| Question Number 9: Does your Paediatric service use Dendrite or Twinkle software, or both, to capture patient data? | |
| Answer To Question 9: We don’t use dentrite or twinkle to capture patient data – we have an inhouse database for capturing the same data and submitting to the NPDA | |
| Question Number 10: What methods of accessibility to you have for patients whose first language is not English? | |
| Answer To Question 10: We have access to interpreters for booked outpatient clinic appointments and access to language line for anything more urgent. We have a limited range of written material in languages other than English and ask the national network for help when we need anything more. We routinely use the translate function on the digibete website where there is information that would be helpful on there (this does not provide subtitles for videos). We struggle with providing an open access telephone service for patients who cannot speak English well enough to have an ad hoc telephone conversation. | |
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