The HealthPathways WA team celebrated the completion of 150 pathways - including all their diabetes request pages - to coincide with Diabetes Week by fundraising on the theme of "Your Feet and Diabetes".

The diabetes clinical stream played a big role in reaching the 150 milestone, with 25 diabetes pathways now live on the HealthPathways WA site.

"The completion of the diabetes request pages were a significant achievement for HealthPathways WA, as the WA region is vast and varied. Therefore it was necessary for us to engage with many Health Services and stakeholders to complete them," HealthPathways WA Projects Lead Magda Matuszczyk says.

As the go live dates for the diabetes pathways coincided with Diabetes Week, the HealthPathways WA team decided to run some fundraising events geared towards this year’s theme - "Your Feet and Diabetes".

"A few of the ideas that we decided to pursue were sock puppet making and a 'Wear Your Slippers to Work Day'," Magda says.

"We also organised an educational online quiz that required use of the live diabetes pathways to answer the questions. If anyone would like to try the quiz after using the Western Australian site, it is still available for use.

"As a result of the week’s activities we ended up raising moral around the office, raising funds for Diabetes WA, raising awareness around foot health and diabetes, and raising the usage of diabetes pathways."

Try the HealthPathways WA Diabetes Week quiz. 

The HealthPathways WA team enjoy Wear Your Slippers to Work Day to raise funds and awareness for Diabetes Week.