Here for you, here for your health
Feel reassured that you're not alone if you are living with diabetes. The Diabetes Care Programme gives you access to enhanced support and additional benefits to best manage your condition.
What is the Diabetes Care Programme?
The Diabetes Care Programme, together with your Premier Plus doctor, will help you actively manage your diabetes. The programme gives you and your Premier Plus doctor access to various tools to monitor and manage your condition and to ensure you get high quality coordinated healthcare and the best outcomes.
Your doctor can track your progress on a personalised dashboard. This will help to identify the steps you should take to manage your condition and stay healthy over time. The programme also unlocks cover for valuable healthcare services from healthcare providers like dietitians and biokineticists.
How to Register on the Diabetes Care Programme
Any member registered on the Chronic Illness Benefit for diabetes can join the Diabetes Care Programme.
To access the Diabetes Care Programme:
- Book a consult with your Premier Plus doctor and ask to be registered on the programme. Access the Find a Find a Provider tool to find a Premier Plus doctor
- Email Members_DCP@engenmed.co.za with "register me" in the subject line. Please include your name, surname and membership number in the body of the email.
- Call us directly 0860 444 439 to speak to one of our care navigators
Simple ways to manage your diabetes
Download these resources to help you on your diabetes journey.
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Your Diabetes Care team gives you the support you need to manage your diabetes
If you have diabetes, you know how important it is to manage the condition well. You need support to do this. Being surrounded by the right healthcare team makes diabetes management and care far simpler for you and far more effective overall - ensuring your best quality of life.
The Diabetes Care Programme supports Dr Martine Joffe's patients entirely
"The Diabetes Care Programme is of great benefit," explains Dr Joffe. "Patients on the programme are engaged in their care, and know they have to come in for a certain number of visits which are funded in full. People are price-sensitive, particularly through the economic decline we saw in 2020. The fact that access to the Diabetes Care Programme is funded through risk benefits - so does not impact members' medical savings - goes a long way to encouraging their adherence to the programme's timetable. In this way I can keep good tabs on them too."