Claire Dingle

Claire has been working in diabetes in secondary care in SVUH since 2006 and joined the ECAD team in January 2017. She did a Higher Diploma in Diabetes Nursing in 2008. Claire worked as a DAFNE educator-( Dose Adjustment for Normal Eating), a structured education programme for Type 1 diabetes in SVUH. As well as gaining extensive inpatient and outpatient diabetes management of Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes in the acute setting Claire was involved in staff training and development and review of local protocols and guidelines, audit and research.

Claire's present role as part of the ECAD team is the management of Type 2 diabetes in the primary care setting. Claire is directly linked with St Vincent's University Hospital Diabetes Centre and attends the outpatients clinic there every Monday.