Hannah Mountford  Assistant to Director of Services and Community  Friendly Flo helps patients regain control of their diabetes Flo has been helping patients with diabetes to manage their condition for sometime now, and since being introduced to Flo, patients have since seen improvements in their health and clinicians report improved

We are excited to announce the publication of “Use of an Innovative Technology Enabled Care Service (Tecs) “Florence” to Empower Patients and Enhance Adherence to Treatments in Diabetes” in the Journal of Nursing and Healthcare, written by Parijat De, Susan Irwin, Jagjit Kaur and our own Karen Moore.  This research

Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust  Anita Brockbank, Una Brechany, Karen Hamlen, Kerry Camara, Deirdre Frost  Newcastle Upon Tyne Patient Stories and Experiences with Flo  EPILEPSY Florence has been successfully used by Newcastle Hospitals to motivate patients with epilepsy be more compliant with their medication; revealing impact amongst both with younger and older patients. 

Poor delivery of life-changing education to people with diabetes is fuelling serious diabetes complications, premature deaths and unsustainable costs to the NHS, according to a new report published by Diabetes UK today (Wednesday 13th July). The charity’s State of the Nation report reveals that in 2014-2015 only 2 per cent

This “tell it as it is” video produced by NHS Western Isles, features Diabetes and Heart Failure patients Erin and Chris along with Lead Nurses Jane Macaulay and Debra Vickers discussing their experiences of working with Florence. Western Isles NHS Medical Director Angus McKellar rounds up,  explaining that the experience

Specialist Diabetes TeamDerbyshire Community Health ServicesNHS Foundation Trust  22 January 2016 Congratulations from us all at simple.uk.net to the Specialist Diabetes Team at Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust in becoming finalists in the National Patient Experience Network (PEN) Awards in their Innovative Use of Technology/Social Media category for

Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Partnership NHS Trust After introducing Flo to support their diabetic caseload, the team have renewed a patient’s confidence in managing her condition giving the patient freedom to get on with her life.  Since September 2014, the patient had been receiving twice-daily visits and phone calls from the