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A week in Manchester, and to be honest, I have been looking forward to this for some time. It's the annual conference for Diabetes UK where many colleagues mingle, share ideas, have a collective moan. This year, potentially, bristles with the air of possibility.

You don't need to be a recluse to know that the NHS is struggling. Any media outlet worth its salt is covering it and quite rightly too. You have to work in a hospital to know how "tough days" as regards to the emergency pathway have become more of a norm, rather than a rarity. A "black" status which, even a few years back, used to mean something is now on the verge of being normalised. It's not an unknown fact, we are struggling. Full stop.

In the midst of that, there have been some good news for diabetes care. NHS England is on the verge of declaring which areas have won the transformation bids, about £40 million worth. Factor in the roll out of the National Diabetes Prevention programme and a few digital tools to help in education and self management (on its way) and there just may be something there for the diabetes community.

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We have re-launched our jobs page for healthcare professionals working in diabetes.

To visit the page, click here.

To help share all the excellent, pioneering and innovative work being carried out by diabetes teams across the country, we are looking for ideas to include in our new Innovation Hub.

The free resource will contain snapshot summaries detailing initiatives which are taking place to improve diabetes care in primary and secondary care settings around the country. To read more, click here. 

For the first time the type 1 diabetes eating disorder diabulimia has been found to affect teenage men, it has been unveiled.

Diabulimia is a condition which, up until recently, was linked only to women with type 1 diabetes who would omit taking the correct dosage of insulin in a bid to lose weight. To read more, click here. 

Eating whey protein before breakfast could help prevent or control type 2 diabetes, two separate studies by Newcastle University have shown.

The findings, which were unveiled at the Diabetes UK Professional Conference, found obese men and males with type 2 diabetes had better blood sugar levels after eating the protein first thing. One of the studies also showed it helped stifle appetite. To read more, click here. 

An NHS service in Birmingham is offering an alternative treatment to gastric bypass for obese people with type 2 diabetes that could be made widely available.

At the Diabetes UK Professional Conference, the City Hospital team presented how using the unique EndoBarrier therapy could help people on the NHS control their condition better. To read more, click here. 

Two risk calculators have been developed which could help healthcare professionals prescribe better combination treatment for people wth diabetes.

The research into personalised treatments was presented at this year’s Diabetes UK Professional Conference in Manchester.

One of the risk calculators, which was developed by teams from Exeter, Dundee, Oxford and Glasgow Universities, can predict how well someone’s blood glucose levels will be controlled by two drugs used to treat type 2 diabetes. To read more, click here.