FOI Request
- Disclosure ID
- FOI/03249
- Request Date
- August 6, 2019
- Subject
- Diabetes And Emotional And Mental Health
- Description
1). How many specialist adult diabetes multi-disciplinary teams operate within the Trust?
2). How many people are currently under the care of each specialist adult diabetes multi-disciplinary team within the trust?
3). How many whole time equivalent mental health professionals are employed as part of each specialist adult diabetes multi-disciplinary team, and which part of the service are they aligned to?
If there are no mental health professionals employed within the service, but there is a collaboration with Improving Access to Psychological Therapies-Long Term Conditions (IAPT-LTC), please give details of this instead.
- Response
1). We do not have any mental health professionals working within Diabetes. The only team we have dealings with are the Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners who are part of IAPT Supporting Minds Blackpool.
They attend clinic once a week and mainly offer low intensity and high intensity CBT and Counselling within their service.
2). Please see answer to Q1.
3). Please see answer to Q1