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Video: Diabetes, medicines and me Diabetes, medicines and me

A guide for people living with type 2 diabetes

If you’re looking for help to manage type 2 diabetes, the Diabetes, medicines and me videos provide important information about the condition, how it is managed and how to keep yourself in the best possible health. 

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How NPS and Diabetes
TASMANIA can help you
What is type 2 diabetes?
How your health
professionals can help

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Image of person taking insulin.
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Managing type 2
diabetes with tablets

Answers to your questions
about insulin
Understanding prescription
medicine
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Complementary medicines
including traditional or
herbal alternatives

Generic medicines — as
good as the brand names

Get help with a
Home Medicines Review

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Type 2 diabetes
management — it’s
not just about medicines

Ask the experts for
more information


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Diabetes TASMANIA is a self-funded social enterprise organisation, working to help all people living with diabetes to achieve the best possible health outcomes for themselves, through the provision of high quality diabetes education.

 

Disclaimer

Diabetes TASMANIA and the National Prescribing Service Ltd recommend that all viewers discuss the management of their type 2 diabetes and the correct use of their medicines with their general practitioner, endocrinologist, credentialled diabetes educator or pharmacist before acting on any of the information contained within these videos. While all reasonable effort has been made to ensure that the information contained in these videos are accurate and complete as at the date of its creation, it is for information purposes only and is not medical advice. Any treatment decisions should be made in the context of the clinical circumstances of each individual patient.

The events depicted in this film are fictitious. Any similarity to any person living or dead is merely coincidental. Any medicines used or mentioned in this video are for educational purposes only and should not be taken as an endorsement of the medicine by the National Prescribing Service Limited.

Copyright

Diabetes, medicines and me is a production of Diabetes TASMANIA and the National Prescribing Service Ltd ©2009. This work is copyrighted. You may download, display print and reproduce this work in unaltered form only (retaining this notice) for non-commercial use either personally or within your organisation. Apart from any such use or otherwise as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, all rights are reserved. Queries concerning reproduction and rights should be sent to copyright@nps.org.au.


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