Jayne Lehmann on LinkedIn: Making the switch – The data behind the Australian Omnipod experience by… (2024)

Excited to be a speaker at PSA’s conference later this year!

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What a great new service to be launched in the new future in Victoria. Congratulations to you all. This will be a fantastic service for people with diabetes relying on the support of family or support workers in the disability sector. There are frequent ambulance callouts for this group and they end up bouncing back into Accident and Emergency time and time again. Discussed this with Dr Ben Nash a few months back. Edhealth looks forward to supporting this great new service!

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I’m proud to say I have a number of people working on the EdHealth team working with us because of the flexibility we build into our work place. We value work life balance and skills are skills, no matter how they develop. We work to set each person up to successfully juggle their commitments. We value the extended family we create by being inclusive of family and personal life. There is a flexible approach to when, where and how our team fulfils their work commitments. Our team is stronger and delivers more to clients because of the extra value that comes from people feeling safe to juggle their personal and work roles. Their skills, insights, energy and commitment add value, including lived experience of family members with a disability, to EdHealth’s work creating Diabetes 4 Disability solutions that work!Thanks Team!

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Lovely catching up with colleagues at the Annual Therapeutic Update for the SA/NT PSA Branch. Great opportunity to talk to pharmacists about the latest and greatest in continuous glucose monitoring technology and to explore the role of the pharmacist when supporting people with diabetes. Thank you for the opportunity to be involved in your continuing education sessions Pharmaceutical Society of Australia I always receive such a positive response from the team at PSA and participants when doing these presentations! Great to share I will also be presenting at the National Conference of PSA in Sydney in August this year. Hope to see you there ... I can't wait! #PSA24

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Happy World Down Syndrome Day! A day to celebrate the people who have Down Syndrome, their family, supporters, disability and health professionals working with them for a happy and healthy life. Make your service accessible to people with Down Syndrome and you improve access for everybody. That's a fresh approach! Watch this year's message to see how our assumptions hold people with Down Syndrome back! https://lnkd.in/gUHFA4WT #Downsyndromeday2024 #disabilityhealth #primaryhealthcare #livingmylife #wecandobetter

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Nothing sticks like Omnipod! was a chat recorded in December last year between Credentialled Diabetes Educators Jayne Lehmann and kirrily chambers. They looked into the nooks and crannies of the Omnipod pump to see what they could find in their 30th episode of the P2 Diabetes Chat podcast. Coming in under 30 minutes this is an easy to listen to chat for anybody wanting to hear more about Insulet's Omnipod. Call it professional development and you can add it to your annual requirements if you're a health professional! A thank you to Insulet for this chat sponsorship. https://lnkd.in/gRmNfmMU#omnipod #insulin #insulinpump #notubing #anotheroption

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Happy new year everybody! Getting a break over the Christmas/new year is always nice; for many of us it also brings challenges. Personally, we have a number of days that cause our family to pause, reflect and remember the time before Sarah, our middle daughter, died from SUDEP (Sudden unexplained death from epilepsy) on the 30th December, 2019. It was 2 days before her 26th birthday and this year Sarah would have been turning 30 years old. Far too young ... but a common story for those with family members with Dravet syndrome and other intellectual disabilities. In fact, people with a disability die 27 years earlier than people without a disability. I do presentations to many groups on the need to improve the health of people with a disability by addressing the health AND disability sides of the equation. In a presentation before Christmas, I said,"I will not accept health services don't have the money (to deliver better healthcare to people with a disability) ... I will not accept disability services don't have a responsibility (to support people for good health)."And so I won't ... People with a disability have the same rights as those without disability in Australia to receive quality healthcare and support to be healthy. It's time we delivered and I'm doing my bit with the launch of a new course. "Disability support for good health" is a course providing insights into the actions support workers can take to proactively work with a client to improve the areas of their lifestyle that deliver good health. This includes how to get the most out of their GP and the other health services they use. Disability organisations can add this training to their orientation and annual training schedules to create a proactive approach to supporting clients for good health. So join with me and proactively support the health needs of your clients to trigger the payback to you and your organistation ...Healthy people are happier and able to focus on their goals, improving their quality of life. Happy people experience less behaviours of concern, staff turnover drops and their support costs less to deliver a healthier organisation and NDIS. What a way to start off 2024! www.edhealth.com.au

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2023 has been a year of doing more of what we do best ... creating solutions for the challenges people with intellectual, cognitive and psychosocial disabilities face, with their circles of support, in managing their diabetes. Read more in our short update below ... Want to also thank the LinkedIn community for their ongoing interest in the Diabetes 4 Disability work we do, my advocacy and the sharing of insights from lived and professional experience. Your support and encouragement means a great deal to me, especially as we face another Christmas without Sarah ... the inspiration behind my work and advocacy.Watch this space for more of the same in 2024, including new training options for disability support organisations! https://lnkd.in/gyjHurPA

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We have noted in our work with people with intellectual or cognitive or psychosocial disabilities very few are referred for HMRs. We work with people who have very complex needs to put in place models of support to achieve their right to be able to care for their diabetes, despite their disability. They frequently are not seen in a pharmacy because their support workers arrange their medications. Their GPs are not referring them ... unsure why, as they are high risk for medication issues.Pharmacies can be proactive and talk to organisations to whom they provide Webster Packs about asking the client's eligible for HMRs to do the referral. Good practice plus income stream! To find out more about EdHealth's work www.edhealth.com.au or listen to the P2 Diabetes Chat podcast I do with kirrily chambers ! #HMR #personcentredcare #NDIS #Medicare #intellectualdisabilities #goodhealth4all #p2diabeteschat

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