Worldwide guidelines on how to manage hyperglycaemia in people who have the condition have been updated.
Produced by the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) and the American Diabetes Association (ADA), the consensus statement now includes recommendations about specific drug classes and enhancing medication adherence.
Leading experts from the University of Leicester have led the development of a major European-wide consensus statement on the safe glucose-lowering in older adults with type 2 diabetes.
Professor Kamlesh Khunti, who is Professor of Primary Care Diabetes and Vascular Medicine at the university and also Co-Director of the Leicester Diabetes Centre, and Primary Care Fellow Dr Samuel Seidu, collaborated on the guidance for Primary Care Diabetes Europe.
The finalists for the 2018 Quality in Care (QiC) Diabetes awards have been revealed. Now in its eighth year, the Quality in Care programme recognises, rewards and shares innovative practice which has demonstrated quality in diabetes management, education and services. To read more, click here.
NICE has published a report examining progress made by the healthcare system in implementing its guidance. The ‘NICE impact diabetes’ report reviews how the organisation’s recommendations for evidence-based care are being used in priority areas. To read more, click here.
Leading experts will be sharing their techniques, tips and tactics to prevent and manage hypoglycaemia at this year’s Diabetes Professional Care Hypo Hub. To read more, click here.
DKA audit could pave the way for new guideline
An audit to explore services for young people who fall between paediatric and adult care for diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) could pave the way for a new official guideline. To read more, click here.
Hypo Awareness Week 2018 has broken the record for the number of participating sites. A total of 536 sites took part, up from 343 last year. The campaign launched in 2012. To read more, click here.
A team of 13, including the editor of the Diabetes Times, walked, cycled and ran 14 miles to raise awareness of diabetes for the InDependent Diabetes Trust.
They started in Northampton and travelled along the Brampton Valley Way, a former railway line, to Market Harborough, in Leicestershire, on Saturday, September 22.
Cutting-edge microscopy technologies will be used as part of a £1.78 million research study aiming to find new treatments for type 2 diabetes. To read more, click here.
Nursing experts responsible for developing diabetes injection recommendations have teamed up to continue the dissemination of good practice. To read more, click here.
The best performing organisations delivering X-PERT education across the UK and Ireland have been presented with awards at a glittering ceremony in Manchester. To read more, click here.
A call for abstracts has been made ahead of the launch of the new Diabetes Times online journal, with researchers and healthcare professionals invited to make submissions covering applied health research and service evaluation, delivery and audit.
The focus on the drive to tackle obesity should be more about health, not weight, according to a leading sociologist from the East Midlands. To read more, click here.
People from Mozambique have received crucial education from researchers to help drive them to effectively self-manage their type 2 diabetes. To read more, click here.
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Dr Partha Kar's blog – Silly season
We seem to be entering silly season very fast. The latest example is a new wheeze from some Clinical Commissioning Group suggesting that General Practitioners have a go at doing Caesarian sections in women. I mean, where do you start with THAT level of banality? If it is true, as reported, it's breathtaking in its scope of desperation and, in some ways, opens up new frontiers of policy making, which could only be seen as an episode of The Thick Of It. To read more, click here.
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