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Working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples



Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples experience high levels of diabetes. If you provide care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples living with diabetes, there is a lot you can do to support them. Find information and resources to help Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living with diabetes get even more support.

Registering people with the NDSS is easy. As an authorised health professional, sign up to the NDSS Health Professional Portal with your AHPRA or CDE registration number and you’ll be able to register the people in your care within minutes. 

The following health professionals are authorised to use the NDSS Health Professional Portal to certify NDSS forms:

  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioners
  • Credentialled Diabetes Educator (CDE)
  • Endocrinologist/Diabetologist
  • General Practitioner
  • Nurse Practitioner
  • Practice Nurse
  • Physician
  • Paediatrician
  • Other registered medical practitioner who specialises in diabetes.

Featured resources

Diabetes Yarning

A comprehensive handbook to help support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples living with diabetes.

FootForward

A training package to support the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workforce provide diabetes foot care in community.

Talking about diabetes

Videos to support the delivery of basic diabetes education to community living with or at risk of diabetes.

Access Diabetes e-learning

Online modules for the health workforce supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living with diabetes.

Aboriginal couple in their 50s at home using the internet, man leaning over woman and looking at laptop

Diabetes Yarning Online

The Diabetes Yarning program aims to encourage more yarning about diabetes, and is for people living with diabetes or those who support people living with diabetes.

Diabetes Australia acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of this Country. We recognise their connection to land, waters, winds and culture. We pay the upmost respect to them, their cultures and to their Elders, past and present. We are committed to improving health outcomes for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people affected by diabetes and those at risk.

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