We can offer you our expertise and experience in designing and delivering person-centred services and consultations, structured diabetes education and how to promote not only attendance, but active engagement and involvement of people in their own care. These are all issues of pressing concern in the world of diabetes and long term conditions and we can help you to make them become a reality.

Whatever the issue you are struggling with, our approach and expertise can offer you a way forward. We work with you to identify and clarify your issues, challenges and goals, then find a practical way forward that will bring you success.  In our view, empowerment is for all of us and our supportive, evidence based approach will help you make the changes you wish for. 

We can also research and create bespoke reports and specifications to support your developments and act as an external advisor and authority in our specialist areas above.

Our consultancy fees are between £600 and £1000 per day, depending on your needs, and after initial discussions, we provide a written and costed proposal for your approval and confirmation.

Talk to us about your needs and we can work out a way to help provide the solutions that work for you. Just Get in touch by email, phone or via our social networks - we look forward to working with you!

For those of you who live with diabetes, we strongly believe that you should have good and varied information that helps you to think about your own situation, identify your own feelings and priorities, and make your own decisions about what is right for you and your diabetes care. There is no one answer to how to live with diabetes but there are many ways of fitting it in successfully to your life - we want you to feel successful in the ways you have chosen. Diabetes is lifelong and changes as time goes by, so you may need new ways and ideas to respond to those changes. We provide help and information that give you support along your journey.

For those of you who are health professionals or involved in providing care for people with diabetes, we know that as you strive to provide the best care, you need support, skills and information to help you. Our workshops and information will help you to have greater success and help you work in partnership with people with diabetes. One of our specialities is providing tailor-made solutions to people's training needs, so we can adapt any of our workshops to suit the needs of your group. We also develop new workshops in response to changing patterns of care in the NHS, so for example we have led the way in developing training in using a personalised care planning approach.

Successful Diabetes (SD) was originally set up by Rosie Walker and Jill Rodgers, two former diabetes specialist nurses, to be able to provide the type of skills training opportunities that were lacking in an acute-focussed NHS, based on an empowerment philosophy. From 2002 to 2012, Rosie and Jill invested in learning more about what approaches were most effective in terms of engaging with people within consultations and group education sessions, resulting in enhanced skills in psychology, education and person-centredness.

Together, they developed new programmes and workshops to meet the changing needs of the NHS, particularly in relation to the increasing recognition of the importance of self-management and of the need for health professionals to receive training in new ways of working. Rosie and Jill also published a number of books relating to their workshops and their areas of expertise, which have been extremely well received.

In 2012, Jill made the decision to leave Successful Diabetes and work independently, and then retired in 2017. She remains a good friend to Successful Diabetes and to Rosie personally.  Rosie continues in the role of company director, developing and delivering high quality, outcome-driven programmes tailored to commissioners' needs and working with specialist associates when the need arises.  

In 2014, Professor Jackie Sturt of Kings College, London became SD's Associate Director for the Diabetes Manual Programme and Diabetes Manual Complete.

Find out more about Rosie's background, experience and expertise 

You can contact Jill Rodgers via our contact us page. Leave her a message with your contact details and it will be passed on to her.