Available for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch from the App Store and Android from Google Play. Free http://triabetes.com www.diabetestools.se This award-winning app from Swedish medical technology company Diabetes Tools is available in English and Swedish. It holds the CE mark, signalling compliance with European Union medical device regulations. Now available in version 2.1.0, Triabetes is an all-in-one app for controlling all forms of diabetes. It can be used by individuals, clinicians, treatment centres and clinics. Featuring British food lists, the app builds a personal view of how food, exercise and medicine interact over days, weeks and months. Users can set goals for daily calorie intake and track meals, drinks and snacks. They can use the app to self-report, and it automatically connects to the Triabetes Clinic triage tool to give daily insight into diet and exercise choices, with resulting blood sugar, weight and blood pressure numbers. Diabetes nurse specialists linked to the Triabetes Clinic can follow diabetic events, view daily, weekly and monthly patient data, and prioritise care for those who need the most help. Margaret Arthur is a retired nurse living in London
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The best of the week’s health-related TV and radio PICK OF THE WEEK
BRITAIN’S YOUNGEST CARERS
Wednesday July 9, Channel 4, 11pm-12am With the help of Oritsé Williams (pictured), founding member of boy band JLS, this documentary follows the lives of four of Britain’s youngest carers – six-year-old Ty-Reece, sisters Clare and Erin, aged 16 and 14, and Josh, who is 13. Oritsé cared for his mother from the age of 12. How do young carers balance and juggle physical and emotional demands with the pressures of getting an education, as well as their social lives and hopes and dreams for the future? SUNDAY JULY 6
The Food Programme BBC Radio 4, 12.30-1pm Stefan Gates talks to teachers, children and ministers about food, ahead of the curriculum changes that come into force from September. For the first time ever, practical cookery will be compulsory for children up to year nine. Will the changes in the school curriculum have an effect on young people’s health? MONDAY JULY 7
Operation Hospital Food with James Martin BBC 1, 11.30am-12.15pm, Monday-Friday James Martin continues his mission to improve hospital catering. As he starts work with the team at Birmingham’s Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, has he underestimated the scale of the task? The kitchen staff face losing their jobs thanks to a growing overspend and shocking levels of waste.
CHANNEL 4
Triabetes: Your Diabetes All-In-One app ★★★★★
doctors assess the damage that four holidaymakers have inflicted on their bodies after a week-long drinking binge. WEDNESDAY JULY 9
One Born Every Minute Channel 4, 9-10pm In tonight’s episode we meet more mothers-to-be and the staff caring for them in the maternity unit at Southmead Hospital in Bristol.
Britain’s Youngest Carers Channel 4, 11pm-12.00am See Pick of the Week THURSDAY JULY 10
Black Market Britain – Undercover Sting Channel 5, 8-9pm In this new series, investigative journalist Paul Connolly goes undercover to enter the booming black market in illegal medicines, including one dealer selling counterfeit Viagra from a pub car park.
TUESDAY JULY 8
FRIDAY JULY 11
Embarrassing Bodies
The Leadership Gap
Channel 4, 9-10pm In the first of this new series, a young father asks Dr Christian to help treat his facial scarring. Dr Pixie sees a woman scarred by childhood burns to her chest and back. And in Magaluf in Spain, the
BBC Radio 4, 11-11.30am John Tusa explores the state of leadership in large organisations, talking to past and present leaders of the NHS and the BBC. Compiled by nurse Margaret Paul
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The best of the week’s health-related TV and radio PICK OF THE WEEK
BRITAIN’S YOUNGEST CARERS
Wednesday July 9, Channel 4, 11pm-12am With the help of Oritsé Williams (pictured), founding member of boy band JLS, this documentary follows the lives of four of Britain’s youngest carers – six-year-old Ty-Reece, sisters Clare and Erin, aged 16 and 14, and Josh, who is 13. Oritsé cared for his mother from the age of 12. How do young carers balance and juggle physical and emotional demands with the pressures of getting an education, as well as their social lives and hopes and dreams for the future? SUNDAY JULY 6
The Food Programme BBC Radio 4, 12.30-1pm Stefan Gates talks to teachers, children and ministers about food, ahead of the curriculum changes that come into force from September. For the first time ever, practical cookery will be compulsory for children up to year nine. Will the changes in the school curriculum have an effect on young people’s health? MONDAY JULY 7
Operation Hospital Food with James Martin BBC 1, 11.30am-12.15pm, Monday-Friday James Martin continues his mission to improve hospital catering. As he starts work with the team at Birmingham’s Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, has he underestimated the scale of the task? The kitchen staff face losing their jobs thanks to a growing overspend and shocking levels of waste.
CHANNEL 4
Triabetes: Your Diabetes All-In-One app ★★★★★
doctors assess the damage that four holidaymakers have inflicted on their bodies after a week-long drinking binge. WEDNESDAY JULY 9
One Born Every Minute Channel 4, 9-10pm In tonight’s episode we meet more mothers-to-be and the staff caring for them in the maternity unit at Southmead Hospital in Bristol.
Britain’s Youngest Carers Channel 4, 11pm-12.00am See Pick of the Week THURSDAY JULY 10
Black Market Britain – Undercover Sting Channel 5, 8-9pm In this new series, investigative journalist Paul Connolly goes undercover to enter the booming black market in illegal medicines, including one dealer selling counterfeit Viagra from a pub car park.
TUESDAY JULY 8
FRIDAY JULY 11
Embarrassing Bodies
The Leadership Gap
Channel 4, 9-10pm In the first of this new series, a young father asks Dr Christian to help treat his facial scarring. Dr Pixie sees a woman scarred by childhood burns to her chest and back. And in Magaluf in Spain, the
BBC Radio 4, 11-11.30am John Tusa explores the state of leadership in large organisations, talking to past and present leaders of the NHS and the BBC. Compiled by nurse Margaret Paul
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