Consultants

  • Dr Nik Daskas, Lead Diabetes Consultant
  • Dr Rachel Besser, NPDA and Research Lead
  • Dr Taffy Makaya
  • Dr Agnieszka Brandt-Varma
  • Dr Roy Osgood

Specialty Doctors

  • Dr Supriyo Basu
  • Dr Rosemary London
  • Dr Rajat Pratap

You may see a doctor whose name is not on the list. This is because we help to train doctors in our hospitals, and sometimes they join our team for a year of specialist training. Our trainee doctors are always closely supervised by an experienced member of our multidisciplinary team.

Specialist Nurses

Dr Diana Yardley (PhD)

Lead Paediatric Diabetes Specialist Nurse

Catherine Earnshaw-Crofts

Miranda Holdship

Hannah Powell

Imogen Stamford

Jess Cooke

  • Tel: 01865 228737
  • Mobile: 07717 540153

Emily Welz / Hannah Haynes

Sarah Chapman

Paediatric Diabetes Specialist Nurse for Schools

Dietitians

Anne-Marie Frohock

Lead Paediatric Diabetes Dietitian

Sev Gregory-Smith

Andrea Young

Clinical Psychologists

  • Dr Mary Owen
  • Dr Kat Damazer

Research Nurses

Kirsten Beadon

Melanie James

Rebecca Law

Administration and support staff

Nina Joshi

Nursing Assistant

Diabetes Secretaries

Tel: 01865 231671

Urgent advice

Please carry out a Blood Glucose Test and a Ketone Test and have these available before calling us.

Contacting us in an emergency

In the unlikely event that you are unable to contact us via the numbers below, do not wait, call your GP or 999 in an emergency.

Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm

Diabetes Nurses' Office: 01865 228737

If you are unable to reach a Diabetes Nurse via the Office, then you could try your Nurse's mobile or email.

If you still cannot contact a Nurse, please call OUH Switchboard.

Tel: 0300 304 7777 (automated system)

After the recorded information the system will ask who you wish to speak to.

Ask for the Operator, who will be able to connect you to either:

  • John Radcliffe Hospital
    Bleep Paediatric Endocrinology Registrar, Bleep 1775 (until 5.00pm); or
  • Horton General Hospital
    Bleep 403

Monday to Friday 5.00pm - 9.00pm

Tel: 07823 533466 (mobile carried by a Diabetes Nurse or Doctor)

If no answer, leave a message and we will call you back, or call OUH Switchboard (see above) and ask them to bleep the On-call Paediatric Registrar on 1392.

Monday to Friday 9.00pm - 9.00am

Call OUH Switchboard (see above) and ask them to bleep the On-call Paediatric Registrar on 1392.

Weekends and Bank Holidays 9.00am - 9.00pm

Tel: 07823 533466 (mobile carried by a Diabetes Nurse or Doctor)

If no answer, leave a message and we will call you back, or call OUH Switchboard (see above) and ask them to bleep the On-call Paediatric Registrar on 1392.

Weekends and Bank Holidays 9.00pm - 9.00am

Call OUH Switchboard (see above) and ask them to bleep the On-call Paediatric Registrar on 1392.

Non-urgent advice

Please call the Diabetes Nurses' Office. We check messages Monday to Friday 9.00am to 3.00pm.

Messages left after 3.00pm may not be answered until the following working day.

Technical support

If you have technical problems with your pump, manufacturers provide 24 hour helpline support.

This is not for medical advice.

  • Medtronic: 01923 205167
  • Insulet (Omnipod): 0344 856 7820
  • Ypsomed: 0800 116 132
  • Air Liquide (Tandem slim): 0800 012 1560
  • Advanced Therapeutics for Dana: 01926 833273
  • Abbott (Libre): Libre Link or View 0800 612 3006
  • Sensors: 0800 170 1177
  • Dexcom: 0800 031 5761
  • Roche: 0800 701 000