Our strategic plan
Diabetes continues to be one of Australia’s greatest health challenges with South Australia experiencing the highest rates in the nation.
Diabetes impacts not only the person living with the condition: it affects carers, families, the community and the health system.
It is the leading cause of debilitating complications including heart disease, kidney failure, vision loss, amputation and mental health conditions and is amongst the top chronic health conditions contributing to potentially preventable hospitalisations.
Increasing levels of intervention and investment are required if we are to change the trajectory of diabetes in our State.
Our Strategic Plan outlines the key strategies and places significant focus on the following areas:
Advocate
Advocate and drive change.
Amplify the voice of people living with or at risk of diabetes to drive the case for greater support and funding.
Raise awareness of diabetes and its impact.
Strengthen awareness of the organisation and its services.
Engage with government and corporate bodies to increase diabetes funding.
Detect
Detect diabetes earlier.
Embed diabetes awareness in the South Australian community for all types of diabetes.
Expand the type 2 diabetes screening and awareness program.
Establish strategic relationships to achieve greater levels of funding, scale, and impact.
Prevent
Prevent people from developing type 2 diabetes.
Establish evidence-based lifestyle-change diabetes prevention program/s.
Establish strategic relationships to achieve greater levels of funding, scale, and impact.
Collaborate and partner with priority groups to develop diabetes prevention programs.
Manage
Empower people for diabetes self-management.
Improve access and extend reach of diabetes self-management education and services.
Build capacity and capability of the health workforce and referral pathways.
Utilise technologies to support best practice diabetes care.
Establish strategic relationships to achieve greater levels of funding, scale, and impact.
Research
Accelerate diabetes research & knowledge.
Strengthen strategic partnerships and develop new partnerships for greater impact.
Elevate recognition of Diabetes SA as a credible partner in research.
Grow funding to support research.
Build the evidence base to inform investment in research and solutions.
Our Impact
- Better policies, funding and services for diabetes backed by diabetes research and informed by people’s lived experience of diabetes.
- Wider community awareness of the signs, symptoms, and risk factors of diabetes and how, where, and when to access support.
- Fewer people developing type 2 diabetes.
- Earlier management and prevention of diabetes related complications, leading to reduced numbers of complications particularly for the most vulnerable.
- Reduction in personal and financial costs associated with diabetes and lower costs to the health system.
- Reduced cultural and distance-related inequities of access to high quality preventative information and support.
- Increase in funding for diabetes research for improved programs and services; advancement of prevention, detection, treatment outcomes; and ultimately a cure for diabetes.
