Supporting your Diabetes health care, together.
At Pharmacy 777, our goal is to help you to manage your pre-diabetes, Type 1, Type 2 or gestational diabetes effectively, in close collaboration with your Doctor and other health professionals involved in your care.
Your Pharmacy 777 Pharmacists can provide personalised support to help you manage your diabetes.
Our services include:
Diabetes management.
Living with a chronic health condition isn’t easy. Whether you’ve been newly diagnosed, or had Diabetes for some time, getting the right support is crucial in managing your condition.
At Pharmacy 777, we can assist you with your diabetes medication, connecting you to the right health professionals, providing blood glucose monitoring tips and advice and NDSS support.
Medication management support.
Our Pharmacists can review the medication you currently take and work with you to find the best ways to manage your condition and offer overall health and nutrition advice.
Find out more and book a consultation:
Ongoing monitoring.
Regularly monitoring your blood glucose levels is important. Your Pharmacist can check your blood glucose monitor is reading correctly, while also offering valuable advice on blood glucose testing technique and monitoring of your glucose levels.
Professional referrals.
We can connect you with a range of Health Professionals to help you manage your condition and ensure that your treatment pathway is communicated. These include:
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GPs
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Diabetes Educators
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Dietitians
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Optometrists
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Dentists
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Podiatrists
NDSS support.
Your health and well being.
Our Pharmacists can help you maintain a healthy weight, with optimal nutrition and regular activity, assisting you to quit smoking if applicable, improving sleep and stress, providing health checks and more.
Credentialled Diabetes Educator's (CDE's)
Credentialled Diabetes Educators (CDE’s) provide education and advice on all aspects of diabetes self-management care, including where applicable, to educate and evaluate the person with diabetes’ knowledge and skills of injection technique of glucose lowering medicines.
A CDE can help a person with Diabetes:
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Learn basic information about diabetes and its management.
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Develop problem-solving strategies and skills to self-manage diabetes.
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Adopt healthy eating habits through nutrition education, including meal-planning, weight-loss strategies and other disease-specific nutrition counselling.
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Incorporate physical activity into daily life.
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Understand treatment choices and assist with the safe management of these (including medications and insulin).
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Understand how to use diabetes devices, such as blood glucose meters, insulin pens, insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitors (CGM).
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Monitor blood glucose and learn how to interpret and appropriately respond to the results.
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Initiate and manage safe and effective insulin pump therapy.
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Management of hypoglycaemia and hyperglycaemia.
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Reduce the risk of complications associated with diabetes.
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Develop skills for handling stressful situations & Sick Day Management plans.
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Using NDSS Health Professional Portal to certify NDSS (National Diabetes Services Scheme) forms
At Pharmacy 777 we have Credentialled Diabetes Educators at Pharmacy 777 East Victoria Park and Pharmacy 777 Morley.
People with diabetes are able to claim rebates with a credentialed diabetes educator as part of Medicare’s Chronic Disease Management framework. If you have a GP referral, book your appointment below, alternatively contact the pharmacy to discuss.
Getting started.
For personalised diabetes management support, talk to your Pharmacy 777 Pharmacist today.
HBF MEMBER?
HBF health members can visit us to access a range of convenient health services and benefits.
Talk to our Pharmacists to find out more.