Andy Lavender Email & Phone Number

Andy Lavender who has been living with diabetes for >50 years. A Diabetes UK Award winner, Nabarro Medal owner and voted one of HSJs top 10 most influential patients, his lived experience of diabetic foot ulcers and Charcot foot has led him to work with people and large institutions to help improve provision of care across the NHS. Andy has strived to improve all areas of diabetes care, working with organisations such as the Chester Universities Dietetics Department for student inductions and projects and teaching patients’ perspectives at the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Prosthetics and Orthotics to help influence future health professionals and researchers to see the person living with diabetes, and not just the condition. Andy was the first patient to deliver a lecture at ISDF and is respected as a leading voice on prospective of care provision and compliance. An educator and peer support advocate and has many years experience of supporting others with long term conditions