Oral Presentation Australasian Diabetes in Pregnancy Society Annual Scientific Meeting 2019

A Diabetes Educator Perspective of the CGM Subsidy at an Inner City Tertiary Hospital (#8)

Megan Gemmill 1
  1. Royal Women's Hospital, Parkville, VIC, Australia

The Royal Women’s Hospital is a tertiary level maternity hospital located in Melbourne, with specialist clinics providing care for women with diabetes from pre-conception to post birth. On March 1st 2019, the national government amended the access to subsidised continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) through the National Diabetes Services Scheme to include women with type 1 diabetes who are actively planning pregnancy, pregnant, or immediately post pregnancy. Following the introduction of the subsidy, the diabetes education service at the Royal Women’s Hospital commenced education sessions on CGM insertion and management for eligible women. This CGM education was incorporated into the setting of a diabetes education service already impacted by the demands of the IADPSG criteria without any prospective increase in staffing, or prior experience of CGM insertion. This session provides a diabetes educator perspective on the introduction of CGM into a diabetes education service, its impact on current workload and planning for the future of continuous monitoring.