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Insulin
Dependent
Diabetes
Trust
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Introducing IDDT
A charity based in the UK listening to people
with
diabetes and their carers and supporting their needs
The
Insulin Dependent Diabetes Trust (IDDT) is a registered charity and was
formed in 1994. We are concerned with listening to the needs of people
who live with diabetes, understanding those needs and doing our utmost
to offer help and support. We not only want to help those who actually
have diabetes but also their carers - the husbands, wives, partners and
parents, indeed, all of us who 'live with diabetes'. We recognise that
when one person in a family has diabetes, all other family members are
affected to a greater or lesser extent and they all have views and needs
which may be different from the person with diabetes, but nevertheless
are important.
The Trust was set up to look at some of the day to day difficulties of
living with diabetes, the worries, fears and concerns that perhaps we
don't talk about at the hospital clinic- the ones that many of us
experience and understand because we actually live with diabetes. As a
charity, IDDT has a Board of Trustees and all our Trustees either have
diabetes or have family members with diabetes. So we all know first hand
that while diabetes doesn't rule our lives, it is an important part of
them. It needs care and attention, it can be a nuisance and it is not
without it's problems!
The Trust is run entirely by voluntary donations and we do not accept
funding from the pharmaceutical industry in order to remain uninfluenced
and independent.