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Diabetes Centre

The St Vincent’s Hospital Diabetes Centre provides a variety of ambulatory services, based on a team approach, for the person with diabetes. It is a public specialist health service located within the Sacred Heart Health Service. The Centre is staffed by Diabetes Specialists, a Diabetes Registrar, Diabetes Nurse Educators and Diabetes Dietitians. The Centre accesses the services of St Vincent's Hospital Podiatrists, Ophthalmologists, Pharmacists and Psychologists.

Onsite services include:

  • Individual appointments with diabetes educators and dietitians
  • Ambulatory insulin dose adjustment clinic 
  • Continuous glucose monitoring service  
  • Specialist type 1 clinic including insulin pump service
  • Group programs - for people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes (see below)

A valid Referral is required (please see under ‘Referral to a Diabetes Educator or Dietitian)

For enquiries phone: (02) 8382 2622

 

Group Programs 

For people with type 1 diabetes

OzDAFNE (Dose Adjustment for Normal Eating)

OzDAFNE is a five-day outpatient group education program that equips participants with strategies to self-manage their insulin doses based on the amount of carbohydrate they eat. During the course, participants learn how to:

  • Count carbohydrates and calculate quick acting insulin doses according to carbohydrate intake
  • Correct ‘out of target’ blood glucose levels
  • Adjust long-acting insulin to approximate basal insulin requirements
  • Evaluate their blood glucose patterns and adjust insulin to attain blood glucose levels in the target range.

Dates for 2026: 

  • 5x1 Course: Thursday 9th April, Every Thursday to the 7th May
  • Monday 6th July to Friday 10th July 
  • Monday 9th to Friday 13th November

If you are interested in attending the DAFNE program or would like to find out more, please contact Hayley Wigmore on (02) 8382 2622 or email hayley.wigmore@svha.org.au

To learn more about the OzDAFNE program go to the website www.dafne.org.au 

 

For people with type 2 diabetes

NEW Type 2 Diabetes one day education group 

Dates for 2026: (9am to 12pm)

  • Thursday 19th February
  • Thursday 2nd April
  • Thursday 11th June
  • Thursday 6th August
  • Thursday 1st October
  • Thursday 3rd December

If you are interested in attending the Type 2 Diabetes one day education group or would like to find out more, please email Samantha Thompson: samantha.thompson@svha.org.au

 

Coordinated Care Hub Clinics

The Diabetes Clinics are staffed by Senior Endocrinologists and Advanced Trainee Endocrine Registrars and supported by Diabetes Educators, Dietitians and a Pharmacist. These clinics are located within the Sacred Heart Health Service, Level 3, 170 Darlinghurst Road, Darlinghurst NSW 2010.

  • Diabetes Assessment Clinic (new patients) - Tuesday afternoon
  • Complex Diabetes Clinic – Wednesday morning

A valid Referral is required (please see under ‘Referral to a Diabetes Specialist’)

For enquiries Phone: (02) 8382 2622

 

Inpatients Diabetes Service   

An Advanced Trainee Registrar supervised by an Endocrinologist provides diabetes inpatient management and consultation in the emergency department and all ward areas within the hospital.

A Diabetes Clinical Nurse Consultant provides and coordinates patient education and follow-up care as well as staff education.

 

 

High Risk Foot Service

St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney offers an interdisciplinary “one stop shop” for people with complicated foot conditions related to diabetes. Patients see a podiatrist and endocrinologist, with involvement of an orthopaedic surgeon, vascular surgeon, rehabilitation specialist, infectious diseases specialist, pedorthist, diabetes educator, dietitian and/or other allied health professionals, as required. This allows patients to reduce the number of visits to the hospital, and also improves coordination of their care between the different sub-specialty members.

The referral process is outlined here.

For enquiries phone: (02) 8382 3178

 

Partnership Clinics

Diabetes and Oncology – at Kinghorn Cancer Centre

Patients with cancer often develop diabetes from steroids and other treatments. The Endocrine Service has placed a registrar in the Oncology clinic to manage patients with previously undetected or steroid-related diabetes or diabetes from specific immune therapies.

 

Diabetes and Transplant – at Heart Lung Clinic (Transplant Endocrine Clinic)

Patients who undergo heart and lung transplantation are at risk of developing diabetes related to treatments received, particularly corticosteroids following their transplant. Furthermore, certain conditions such as cystic fibrosis which may necessitate lung transplantation carry a higher risk of diabetes both pre and post tranplant due to a reduction in insulin secretion together with other factors. Patients also require management of other endocrine issues including osteoporosis and thyroid disease.  Dr Christopher Muir and Professor Roger Chen provide endocrine management of these transplant associated endocrine issues within the Heart Lung Clinic along with an endocrinology Advanced Trainee and diabetes educator (Transitional Nurse Practitioner Gabriela Abrahamson).  Research within the Clinic includes s study on Sodium Glucose Transporter Inhibitors (SGLT 2 inhibitors) following transplant (Dr Lisa Raven) with a number of other research projects including the use of Continuous Glucose Monitoring as well as research on anthropometric and other parameters following transplant, coordinated by Dr Muir.

 

Diabetes and Homeless Health - at Matthew Talbot Hostel

St Vincent’s Hospital is located in a unique area where extreme poverty, mental illness, drug and alcohol problems and homelessness exist. Whilst individuals living under such circumstances are at high risk of developing diabetes, they may not access optimum care. The Diabetes Service at St Vincent’s Hospital has introduced a model of care where our Diabetes Specialist Team, including a staff endocrinologist and a diabetes educator, join the local Primary Care Team (a General Practitioner and Mental Health Nurse Specialist) in shared consultations with patients. Shared care management plans are developed, and education is provided to the primary care team and patients.

 

Diabetes and Mental Illness- with the O'Brien Centre

Mental health consumers have high rates of pre-diabetes, diabetes, and premature cardiometabolic disease. The diabetes service (Transitional Nurse Practitioner Gabriela Abrahamson and endocrinologist Professor Roger Chen provide management of these patients with clinicians from Chronic and Complex Care, Exercise Physiology and Mental Health team. The service is unique in that it is Nurse Practitioner led. The service initially will focus on inpatients in the Caritas Ward with expansion to the outpatient setting.