The Nurse Practitioner Diabetes service is an outreach diabetes service incorporating advanced assessment and treatment planning.  It provides face-to-face visits at Community Health Centres located within the Southern NSW Local Health District on a rotating schedule every 3 months. This is a FREE OF CHARGE service.

Criteria for referral include:

• person with diabetes aged 16 years and over with
  • no existing endocrinologist or limited ability to access endocrinology services (e.g. geographical isolation, financial limitations
  • concerns about their diabetes management

Services include:

• comprehensive assessment, identification and prioritising of clinical issues
• planning, implementation and evaluating treatment strategies
• medication management
• assistance with continuum of care and integration of services across sites and disciplines
• case management and consultation of patients with other diabetes team members
• identification of clients requiring referral to diabetes medical specialist clinics

Address: Pambula Community Health Centre, Pambula District Hospital, Merimbola Street

Postcode: 2549

Suburb: Pambula

State: nsw

Country: Australia

Latitude/Longitude: -36.9260, 149.8779

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Preferred contact method: Email

Landline/Work no.: 0428115049

Fax no.: (02) 64958322

Mobile no.: 0428115049

Email: caroline.cook@health.nsw.gov.au

Wheelchair access: Yes

Service delivery in languages other than English: None

• Diabetes self management education
• Individual consultation
• Insulin initiation
• Insulin pumps
• Medicine review

• Gestational diabetes
• Type 1 diabetes
• Type 2 diabetes