Living with Diabetes 49 - Mental Health

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 host a final panel discussion consisting of two previous guests, Sajeela Kershi and Laura Spence, plus DRWF CEO Sarah Tutton. They explore some of the specific challenges they have experienced in their roles and lives involving diabetes. This is the final 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.

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.