 | Name: Barbara
Overview: Barbara was one of the last generations to qualify as a nurse without a university degree. After training at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, from 1988-91, she was a staff nurse on general medical wards until 1996, when she began to specialise in diabetes at the University Hospital in Selly Oak, Birmingham. Since then, she has been called variously a Diabetes Nurse Educator, a Diabetes Specialist Nurse and a Clinical Nurse Specialist. Although she feels well-qualified by experience, she would like to take a degree. Another ambition is to provide more culturally-specific care for patients who share her Caribbean background.
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|  | Name: Harry Keen
Overview: From 1961, Harry Keen worked as physician, investigator and teacher at Guy`s Hospital Medical School, and was Professor of Human Metabolism from 1971 until1990. When interviewed in 2006, he was still working at Guy`s as Professor and Consultant Physician Emeritus. He has been Hon Professor of Medicine at Warwick University since 2005. His work has included major population studies and clinical trials, laboratory studies, origination of the category of IGT, first demonstration of microalbuminuria, continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion, pioneering of Diabetes Centres and leadership of the St. Vincent Declaration. He has held office in many British and international organisations
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|  | Name: Pam Dyson
Overview: Pam Dyson has been involved with the nutritional management of diabetes and obesity for 25 years. She began her working life with the Medical Research Council at the Dunn Nutrition Unit in Cambridge and since then has practised as a community dietician, diabetes specialist dietician for both in and out-patients and has been closely involved with clinical research. Since 2004, she has been employed by Oxford University as a diabetes research dietician. Her main interests are in the delivery of diabetes dietary education, behavioural aspects of lifestyle change and weight management.
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|  | Name: Betty
Overview: Betty`s first child, Nick, was the son of an American soldier who left England before Nick`s birth in December 1944. In 1961, Nick joined the RAF for 12 years and then returned home, aged 30, to live with his mother and work as a taxi driver. He liked sweet food before he developed diabetes around the age of 40 and found it hard at first to change his diet and give up smoking. He stopped taxi-driving when he was 54 because of failing eyesight and poor health and was on dialysis for about 3 years before he died in 2006.
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 | Name: RD (Robin) Lawrence
Overview: RD Lawrence developed diabetes in 1921, during his surgical training at Kings College Hospital. Thinking he had not long to live, he chose to end his days quietly in Florence. Near death in 1923, he received a telegram, summoning him back to Kings, with the dramatic news that insulin had just become available and `it works`! He was appointed Biochemist at Kings that year and later ran the hospital`s diabetic department until he retired in 1957. He devised the influential Line-Ration Diet and his books The Diabetic Life (1925) and The Diabetic ABC (1929) were reprinted well into the 1960s.
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|  | Name: Gillian McGuinness
Overview: Gillian McGuinness studied human physiology at Manchester University before doing an eighteen-month Diploma in Dietetics at Hollings College in 1977, when there was a ‘dire shortage of dietitians`. She worked in NHS and private hospitals in Manchester and Bristol and then at Birmingham Children`s Hospital from 1990. She remembers that in the late 1970s, children with diabetes didn`t always grow very well or get full employment opportunities or take for granted that they would have children, whereas now she expects them to live long healthy lives and be able to achieve all the same things as people without diabetes.
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 | Name: Richard Gee
Overview: Richard Gee has been a G.P. in Lower Gornal, on the edge of the Black Country, since 1972. During the 1980s, a diabetes consultant from Wordsley Hospital helped his practice, and other training practices in the area, to set up mini-clinics and make links with a Diabetes Resource Centre at the hospital. In Dr. Gee`s view, the Payment by Results system, introduced in 2004, encouraged hospitals to reverse the flow of patients from hospital to GP care - but in his area many patients have preferred to stay with their` GPs, supported by a strong diabetes community nursing team.
There is interview with another Black Country GP, from one generation earlier, Dr. Joe Needoff.
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|  | Name: Veronica Wilkie
Overview: When Veronica Wilkie became a GP in Droitwich Spa in 1992, she was expected to specialise in gynaecology. Instead she chose to specialise in diabetes - `the best decision I made`. She eventually set up courses for GPs and practice nurses to gain a Certificate in Diabetes Care. Now her practice no longer needs to run a diabetes clinic – because patients can choose to see any one of four doctors and three nurses with the Certificate in Diabetes Care, at a time to suit them. She is also a Senior Clinical Teaching Fellow at the University of Warwick Medical School.
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