Waverley Medical Centre
244 Springvale Road, Glen Waverley, Victoria 3150
Diabetes education appointments, booked through the clinic.
Credentialled diabetes educator, Melbourne south east
Diabetes education
Time to actually explain it
A diabetes diagnosis usually arrives in a ten minute appointment. I am the part that comes after that. What diabetes is, why it needs treating, and the ways you can keep an eye on it, at a pace that lets you ask the second and third question.
Pharmacist, United Kingdom, 1995
Graduate Certificate in Diabetes Education, 2016
Credentialled diabetes educator
Accredited for medication reviews
Two services, both one to one.
Diabetes education and accredited medication reviews, at a clinic or in your own home.
Service one
Diabetes education
Most people leave the diagnosis appointment holding a pamphlet and a blood test result. The gap between that and knowing what to do on a Tuesday afternoon is the whole job.
I go through what diabetes actually is, why we treat it, and the ways you can monitor it, including providing a blood glucose monitor free of charge where one is needed.
The part I enjoy most is helping people find the small changes that genuinely reduce the risk of the longer term complications diabetes can cause. Small, and yours, so they survive contact with a normal week.
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What diabetes is
In plain words, and specific to the type you have been diagnosed with rather than diabetes in general.
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Why we treat it
What the numbers are doing, what they mean over years rather than weeks, and what is actually being prevented.
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How to monitor it
How to read what you see, when it matters and when it does not. A blood glucose monitor is provided free of charge where one is needed.
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Small changes that hold
Built around the week you actually have. The goal is a change you are still doing in six months, not a plan that collapses on day four.
Service two
Accredited medication reviews
I am accredited to carry out medication reviews, visiting people at home and in aged care to go through their medicines and make recommendations to their GP about their treatment.
It is the pharmacist half of a career that started in 1995, pointed at the question nobody has time for in a standard appointment: is this whole list still the right list.
- Visits at home
- Visits in aged care
- Written recommendations back to the treating GP
About
Thirty years in, still explaining things
I qualified as a pharmacist in the United Kingdom in 1995 and moved to Australia in 2000, where I lived and worked in Tasmania. I moved to Melbourne in 2013 and completed my Graduate Certificate in Diabetes Education in 2016.
I am now a credentialled diabetes educator, which means I can provide ongoing support to people so that they can live well with diabetes rather than simply be treated for it.
- 1995Qualified as a pharmacist in the United Kingdom
- 2000Moved to Australia, lived and worked in Tasmania
- 2013Moved to Melbourne
- 2016Graduate Certificate in Diabetes Education
- NowCredentialled diabetes educator and accredited pharmacist
Where to find me
Consulting rooms and home visits
At home and in aged care
Melbourne south east
Medication reviews are carried out in person, wherever the person lives.
Second location
To confirm
Space held for a second clinic. Nothing is listed here until Hilary confirms where and when.
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Questions
The things people ask first
Draft answers, written to show the shape of the section. Every one needs Hilary's own wording before anything goes live.
Do I need a referral from my GP?
Draft answer. This depends on which service you are asking about and how it is being funded, so it needs Hilary's confirmation rather than a guess.
What does an appointment cost?
Draft answer. No fees have been published anywhere, so none are shown on this concept. Hilary's real fees would sit here.
I have just been diagnosed. Is it too soon to see you?
Draft answer. The period straight after a diagnosis is usually when the most questions arrive and the least time is available to ask them.
Do you provide a blood glucose monitor?
Yes. A blood glucose monitor is provided free of charge where one is needed, along with an explanation of how to read what it tells you.
Can you visit someone in aged care?
Yes. Medication reviews are carried out in aged care as well as in people's own homes, with recommendations going back to the treating GP.
Get in touch
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