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EMPOWER Type 2

Award-winning structured education

EMPOWER Type 2

EMPOWER Type 2 is a QISMET accredited, national, award winning, programme designed to help you understand what diabetes is, the effect it has on the body and how to make small, achievable changes to the food you eat and your everyday life.

This is a transformative single group session of 4 hours ensuring patients gain maximum benefit. Courses are run in a friendly face to face group setting.

All Type 2 courses
EMPOWER Type 2

Course content

  • What is Diabetes: Why we eat, types of diabetes, why me & HbA1c.
  • Oral Medications: Metformin and other medicines.
  • Wellbeing management & sick day rules.
  • Reducing Risk: Annual health checks & short-term/long-term conditions.
  • Food & Lifestyle: Balanced diet, fats, oils, dairy, protein, fruit, vegetables & carbohydrates.
  • Glycaemic index: Explanation & examples of high/medium/low.
  • Food Labelling: Explanation, reading food labels & understanding the traffic light system.
  • Physical Activity: Rethinking activity, beneficial activity, finding local groups & activity plan.
  • Moving Forward: Goal setting, action planning & recording progress, local service signposting.

Course objectives

  • Understand what diabetes is and how it affects your body.
  • Make small, achievable changes to your diet and everyday life.
  • Connect with others in a friendly group setting.

Course delivery

A single session, four hours long, delivered face-to-face in a group setting.