Children's Diabetes

The Paediatric Diabetes Clinic

Regular clinic visits are essential to ensure your child’s continuing good health. The diabetes team includes: doctors, diabetes nurses, diabetes dietitians, a psychologist and the clinic nurses.

Together they are responsible for helping you learn to manage the many different aspects of your child’s condition.

The Paediatric Diabetes Clinic is held in the Children's Clinic in South block, Level 1, at the RBH in Reading, every Thursday morning.

The Specialist Team is made up of the following:

Medical team

Dr Jo Spinks – Paediatric Diabetes Consultant (Clinical Lead)

Dr Chandan Yaliwal – Paediatric Diabetes Consultant

Dr Claire Holt – Paediatric Diabetes Consultant

Dr Cathy Golding – Paediatric Diabetes Associate Specialist

Paediatric Diabetes Specialist nursing team

Andrea Jones (Team Lead)

Ian Lehain 

Sarah Gresty

Boikie Osupeng

Jayne Lewis

Paediatric Diabetes Dietitians

Solenne Guest

Dani Barker

Paediatric Diabetes Psychologist

Dr Inés Baños

In addition there are outpatient clinic nurses, play specialists and clinic receptionists. We also have a dedicated administrator who supports us with appointments and other tasks.

Social media   
The RBH Children’s Diabetes team have Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages. Feel free to follow / like them J They are both called RBH Children and Young People’s Diabetes Clinic.

Contact details

Key information and documents for supporting children with Diabetes at home:

• Carbohydrate Counted ward menu 2020
• Diabetes troubleshooting guide March 2020
• Hypo flow chart final March 2020 v1
• Clinical Guideline: Sick day rules for children with diabetes on Basal Bolus insulin 
• Clinical Guideline: Sick day rules for children with diabetes on two or three daily insulin regimes  
• Clinical Guideline: Sick day rules for children with diabetes on insulin pumps