Ms Richelle Flanagan:

In my own experience, I looked for a multidisciplinary team and information about access to dieticians who had knowledge in this area. Those services were severely lacking when I was diagnosed seven years ago so I travelled to a non-profit multidisciplinary centre in Italy, which made a huge difference in terms of me being able to take control of my condition. When I counsel other patients, whether they have cancer or diabetes, about getting access to services to help them self-manage their condition I find that most people do not have the luxury of the knowledge that I had, as a clinician, to go and find that, nor the funds to do so. Many people do not have that.