We are an organisation for people living with diabetes run by people living with diabetes. We recognise that when one person in a family lives with diabetes, this affects other family members and we offer support to partners and parents. We raise awareness of important issues for people with diabetes and provide information in non-medical language.

A charity based in the UK listening to people with diabetes and their carers and supporting their needs. The Trust is run entirely by voluntary donations and we do not accept funding from the pharmaceutical industry in order to remain uninfluenced and independent.

The Insulin Dependent Diabetes Trust (IDDT) is a registered charity and was formed in 1994. We are concerned with listening to the needs of people who live with diabetes, understanding those needs and doing our utmost to offer help and support. We not only want to help those who actually have diabetes but also their carers – the husbands, wives, partners and parents, indeed, all of us who ‘live with diabetes’. We recognise that when one person in a family has diabetes, all other family members are affected to a greater or lesser extent and they all have views and needs which may be different from the person with diabetes, but nevertheless are important.

The Trust was set up to look at some of the day to day difficulties of living with diabetes, the worries, fears and concerns that perhaps we don’t talk about at the hospital clinic- the ones that many of us experience and understand because we actually live with diabetes. As a charity, IDDT has a Board of Trustees and all our Trustees either have diabetes or have family members with diabetes. So we all know first hand that while diabetes doesn’t rule our lives, it is an important part of them. It needs care and attention, it can be a nuisance and it is not without it’s problems!

It is important that people have a fully informed choice of insulin so that they can choose the type of insulin and the regime that suits them and their lifestyle.

Insulin Choices – The Evidence
Animal insulins are available in the UK
Pork insulin available in Australia
Replacement pork insulin available in
Canada
Helping Developing countries

All About Diabetes – Free Lesson Plan & Resources for Primary Schools

There are about 2.5 million people with diabetes – Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. Nationally there is still a long way to go in educating people about both types of diabetes.

To try to help this situation and so that children can grow up with a basic understanding of diabetes and how it affects both children and adults, we have produced a PSHE Year Six Lesson Plan accompanied by resources which can be used as a class presentation or as a research tool.

For Lesson Plans click here
For Resources click here
For how to use the Resources
click here

The James Lind Alliance type 1 diabetes Priority Setting Partnership is identifying and deciding the most important research questions for the treatment of type 1 diabetes.
First, we need to collect the research questions from people living with diabetes and those caring for them, as well as from doctors, nurses, dieticians and other healthcare professions who treat type 1 diabetes.

For more information and to contribute your treatment research questions by visiting the survey website

www.ukdrn.org/JLAsurvey.html

‘Understanding Your Diabetes’ is a new FREE booklet from IDDT. It explains the differences between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes and supports people with both types of diabetes by removing some of the harmful myths and misunderstandings

Find out more

‘Type 2 and You’ is a new quarterly publication to help people with Type 2 diabetes who are not using insulin or are about to go on to insulin.

Find out more

Everyone can do their bit to help and at the same time, take some exercise! With our free T-shirt every step you take could help someone with diabetes. If you are going for a run or simply walking to the shops or to school you can wear our T-shirts or an IDDT sticker to show people how to get in touch with IDDT.

Get Your Free IDDT Shirt & Pedometer
& Support People with Diabetes

Here at IDDT we are very proud to introduce our new mascot. We are hoping our mascot will be able to educate and support children with and without diabetes all across the country.

The new member to the IDDT team
wants to give you one of our free
‘Goodie Bags’

For people with diabetes to have a real treatment choice, do attitudes need to change? The Debate, followed by a Reception, is to mark the 15th birthday of the formation of the Insulin Dependent Diabetes Trust.

Birthday Debate