About us
Our mission
Create, share and promote models of best practice, that can be tailored to local circumstances to reduce variation in outcomes.
Our values
Improve and increase access to individualised, supported self-management, with tools to address the key components of care.
Bring together all relevant stakeholders to remove barriers between elements of care.
Involve and incorporate expert opinion in solutions.
Ensure our publications can be adopted to fit local circumstances.
Our mission
Create, share and promote models of best practice, that can be tailored to local circumstances to reduce variation in outcomes.
Our values
Improve and increase access to individualised, supported self-management, with tools to address the key components of care.
Bring together all relevant stakeholders to remove barriers between elements of care.
Involve and incorporate expert opinion in solutions.
Ensure our publications can be adopted to fit local circumstances.
Our people
The iDEAL Advisory Group comprises of a group of multidisciplinary diabetes specialists with a keen interest in improving diabetes care outcomes across the UK. It has significant multidisciplinary expertise across diabetes management, medicine, pharmacy, technology, nursing, psychology, commissioning and the perspective of living with diabetes.
Anne Phillips
Professor in Diabetes Care & National Teaching Fellow, Birmingham, Co-Chair of iDEAL CIC
Anne Phillips is a Queens Nurse and a National Teaching Fellow with the Higher Education Academy. Anne works as an Professor in Diabetes Care in Birmingham. After a career in specialist and community diabetes nursing in London and Yorkshire, Anne works with colleagues and has established a national and international collaborative curriculum for MDT Health Professionals in Diabetes Care, which covers the age span.
Kate Walker
Managing Director of the Diabetes Safety Organisation
Kate Walker is the managing director of the Diabetes Safety Organisation, working in the construction and logistics sector, addressing the ever-present and increasing safety risk posed by diabetes. She is promoting the Tackling Diabetes Safety Charter to help improve health and safety. Kate is also the Chair of a charity called Cuppa Squad, supporting people living with long term health conditions in the community.
John Grumitt
Chair of IDEAL CIC, Ambassador of Diabetes UK, Trustee of C3 Collaborating for Health, and a Non-Exec Director and strategic advisor of a number of businesses.
John has been a diabetes patient advocate and catalyst for change in the UK and internationally. He cofounded Changing Health in 2014 and for whom he is now a strategic advisor as well as an investor. His is also non exec. Chair of Hilldon Health, IVF babble and advises several businesses. John has served as vice president of the International Diabetes Federation and has been a trustee and vice chair of Diabetes UK. He has advised NHS England and Public Health England for many years. John is a fellow of the ICAEW.
Anita Beckwith
Clinical Lead Dietitian (Diabetes) at King’s College Hospital, London
Anita Beckwith leads the Diabetes Specialist Dietitian Team and DAFNE services at Kings College Hospital. Her practice is heavily embedded within the National DAFNE Consortium, sitting on both the Executive and Education boards. Her roles have enabled her special interest in therapeutic patient education for intensified insulin therapies to develop within both the clinical and academic environments.
Charles E. Odiase
Consultant Pharmacist in Primary Care and Diabetes Dacorum GP Federation (Lead Clinical Pharmacist) DUK Clinical Champion DUK Primary Care Course Co-chair DUK Professional Conference Organising Committee member.
Charles E. Odiase is a Consultant Pharmacist in Primary care and Diabetes. He has a career goal to empower pharmacists with the skills and knowledge to be able to develop community services that are safe, cost-effective, and reproducible across the UK. Charles is one of the very few diabetes UK Clinical Champions with a pharmacy background. He is also a DUK Primary Care Course Co-chair and DUK Professional Conference Organising Committee member.
Professor Michael Edmonds
Professor of Diabetic Foot Medicine, King’s College London, Consultant Physician, King’s College Hospital, London, UK
Professor Michael Edmonds is a Consultant Physician at King’s College Hospital in London with a special responsibility for care of the diabetic foot. He developed a multi-disciplinary diabetic foot clinic in 1981, one of the first in the world. This clinic brought about a 50% reduction in major amputations in people with diabetes at King’s College Hospital. He is a past Chairman of the Diabetic Foot Study Group of the European Association of the Study of Diabetes.
Jane Diggle
Jane qualified with a BSc (Hons) in Nursing and has over 20 years’ experience. More recently she has specialised solely in diabetes within general practice. She is an independent prescriber and has gained MSc modules in Insulin Management and New & Advanced Therapies. She is Former Co- Vice Chair (2016 – 2023) of the Primary Care Diabetes Society and Joint Editor-in-Chief for Diabetes and Primary Care Journal. Jane regularly publishes articles and speaks at national conferences on practical aspects of diabetes care and was instrumental in developing and writing Six Steps to Insulin Safety.
Dr Patrick Holmes
Part-time GPwSI Diabetes in the Derwentside area of County Durham, Local CCG Diabetes Lead, Part-time NIHR CRN Primary Care Diabetes Lead for the North-East. Committee Member of Primary Care Diabetes Society.
Dr Patrick Homes is Part-time GPwSI Diabetes visiting a number of medical practices in the Derwentside area of County Durham. He is proud to be part of the team who set up the largest integrated diabetes models in England. He has also been the local CCG diabetes lead for the past 12 years. Part-time NIHR CRN Primary Care Diabetes Lead for the North-East. Committee Member and Trustee of Primary Care Diabetes Society and Associate Editor Diabetic Medicine Journal.
Jayne Robbie
Specialist Podiatrist, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust and Senior Lecturer in Diabetes Care, Birmingham City University
Jayne Robbie is a Specialist Podiatrist at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust and Senior Lecturer in Diabetes Care at Birmingham City University. Jayne is the first specialist podiatrist from the West Midlands to become a Diabetes UK Clinical Champion and is also now an active member of the national Foot in Diabetes UK group (FDUK). Jayne sits on the committee of the English Diabetes Footcare Network and has been pivotal in the ACT NOW campaign.