The Northern Territory is a large sparsely populated area and has a large Indigenous population and high rates of diabetes.  At Royal Darwin hospital over 70% of our patients are Indigenous and many of them have diabetes. 

The RDH Diabetes Team has inpatient and outpatient services, some being held in the hospital or urban clinics and others a long plane ride away.  The NT has high levels of screening and although many of our patients some of them as young as 11 have type 2 diabetes we have also a group of Indigenous type 1 patients with similar family backgrounds in certain areas.

Whilst there has been much published about type 2 diabetes in Indigenous populations my talk is about managing urban and remote Indigenous women with type 1 diabetes in pregnancy.