Acacia Ridge National Bulk Billing Diabetes Centre
Clinic in Brisbane

Credentialled diabetes educator, sarah free, will provide personalised advice and guidance in addition to continued diabetes management from your gp. This is a specialised clinic run from within elizabeth street medical centre involving the input from many allied health professionals from within or close to the centre. The results of our recent audit speak for themselves but even more benefits have been seen from attending the clinic in areas of weight control, cholesterol, blood pressure, kidney function and even reductions in the costs of medications. We focus on the whole patient, not just the blood sugar and, with this in mind, we have been able to cease insulin injections for some people with type 2 diabetes who have been on insulin for years resulting in better glucose control, significant weight loss and and a better long term outlook. He works very closely with the other allied health professionals needed for good diabetes management (especially the on-site credentialed diabetes educator, exercise physiologist, physiotherapist, pathologist, dentist, dietician, podiatrist, as well as the optometrist, sarah free), ndss pharmacist and psychologist on-site or very close by. We very rarely need the help of hospital clinics or specialists and are proud to have become an associate member of the national association of diabetes centres. He has developed his special understanding and experience of diabetes from a paraprofessional and personal perspective. Much of his work in uk hospitals involved diabetes management as has his work as a gp in acacia ridge for the past 15 years. He really knows what it is like to live with diabetes. It is dedicated to the very high quality management of diabetes, from diet and lifestyle to insulin pumps, and from the very young to the very old. The principal gp, dr bruce chadfield has had type 1 diabetes from the age of 12 and now uses an insulin pump for good control. We accept referrals from your usual gp to our diabetes educator for full diabetes management alone or the entry as a whole where we can take over your complete gp needs.