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Diabetes self-management support

Care plans for type 2, pre-diabetes and gestational diabetes

Medical and lifestyle options in one plan, agreed in the annual review and followed up in the app. Proven to lower HbA1c in an NHS trial.

The annual review

Help every patient get all 8 care processes

Plans combine medical and lifestyle options for each person, built with data from EMIS.

What's included

Care plans for type 2, pre-diabetes and gestational diabetes
Latest results from EMIS shared to the app automatically
Automated reminders keep people on track between reviews
For your teamA faster, easier way to meet QOF, with fewer unnecessary appointments.
For patientsRisk-rated results they can understand, and a plan to improve them.
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Care plans

Medical and lifestyle options in one plan

Agreed in the annual review, built with data from EMIS and followed up in the app.

Care plans

Medical and lifestyle options in one plan

Two halves of Amir’s annual review: his results from EMIS, and the changes he chose himself.

Each result meets the change that answers it, and locks in.

Agreed in the annual review, built with data from EMIS and followed up in the app.

The plan goes home in the app, with a reminder for each part of it.

At his next review the new result arrives from EMIS, risk-rated, in the app.

Medical and lifestyle options in one plan. Proven to lower HbA1c in an NHS trial.

Change in HbA1c over six months: −7.4% with Healum, +1.8% in the control group. 197 participants, 15 GP practices.

For patients

Help to manage diabetes every day

Their plan, results and reminders in one app. People without a smartphone can have a printed plan.

Randomised controlled trial

Lower HbA1c in six months, in NHS primary care

Healum partnered with Vernova Healthcare CIC, a GP federation, to test care plans and the app across 15 practices in Eastern Cheshire. Funded by UKRI.

197participants
15GP practices
6month outcome period

Heald AH, Roberts S, Albeda Gimeno L, et al. Diabetes Therapy 2023;14:977–988.

Change in HbA1c
With Healum
−7.4%
Control group
+1.8%
−10%0+10%
Reduced their HbA1c
72.4%
41.5%
Reduced their BMI
52.7%
42.9%
With Healum (n=115)Control group (n=82)

In the trial

Choices add up

Patients set their own goals and logged healthy choices.

6,797

healthy choices logged

343

goals completed by patients

84%†

used the app at least twice

In the first 30 days

Having the app has made me feel more motivated. Before whenever I went to the GP it was all about the drugs I must take and that was it.
Patient · type 2 diabetes RCT

Questions

What diabetes teams ask us

More answers are on the Long-term conditions page.

More FAQs

Yes. Care plans cover type 2 diabetes, pre-diabetes and gestational diabetes, combining medical and lifestyle options for each person.

Yes. It gives practices a faster, easier way to work towards QOF, and helps every patient with diabetes get all 8 care processes.

Yes. Their latest results from EMIS, such as HbA1c, blood pressure, weight and cholesterol, appear in the app, risk-rated so they can understand them.

See Healum in a diabetes review

We’ll show you a care plan built from EMIS and shared to the app.