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Sarah Gregory has been in her position as an inpatient diabetes specialist nurse in East Kent for eight years.

Read what she would like to see change in diabetes care and what her biggest career achievement has been so far. To read more, click here. 

Enough. Just enough. This has now gone on for far too long - yup - it's the whole junior doctor fracas. We are now at yet another crossroad - or perhaps an opportunity - so I am going to use this blog to implore - NOT my junior doctor colleagues - but to many others within the NHS to get a bit more involved to help resolve this.

Let's get something straight. A five day strike, with less than two weeks notice, wasn't the brightest idea. Forget about the points to be made to the government, this was more about testing the seniors in regard to what they can do to keep patients safe.

Those five days would have been tough, but would it have been unsafe? Well, it's all conjecture as there is no precedence for it. In Star Trek speak, it's indeed a bit like "going where no doctor has gone before".

Anyway, we can criticise the BMA all we want but let's also laud them for making the right decision on this instance. It's a moment in time, an opportunity, or one more opportunity to resolve this ugly acrimonious fracas. To read more, click here. 

Batches of a kit used to treat severe hypoglycaemic reactions are being recalled due to safety issues. To read more, click here. 

A medical warning has been issued to people who use a certain type of insulin pump. To read, more click here. 

The date for Hypo Awareness Week 2016 has been announced.

The annual campaign, which raises awareness of hypoglycaemia by educating healthcare professionals, will take place between Monday, October 3 and Sunday, October 9. To read more, click here. 

A world-leading diabetes expert has won a top international prize for improving care in genetic diabetes. 

Professor Andrew Hattersley, from the University of Exeter Medical School, is only the second person to be awarded the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) – Novo Nordisk Foundation Diabetes Prize for Excellence. To read more, click here. 

Children in Lanarkshire are being invited to take part in a major new study aimed at preventing type 1 diabetes.

NHS Lanarkshire’s research and development team is looking for young people aged five to 16, who have a brother, sister or parent with type 1 diabetes. To read more, click here. 

A guide has been published to encourage healthcare professionals to use root cause analysis (RCA) to help reduce the number of unnecessary diabetes-related amputations.

RCA determines to what extent an amputation was avoidable or unavoidable, and whether or not it was the best possible outcome for the person with diabetes. To read more, click here. 

Healthcare professionals with an interest in diabetes are being invited to attend a conference and awards ceremony about structured education.

The event is being run by X-PERT Health, which provide programmes based upon the theories of patient empowerment, discovery learning and patient-centred care. To read more, click here. 

Diabetes healthcare professionals are being invited to register for a live webinar looking at the latest interventions into the condition.

Measuring the Cost of the Right Interventions in Diabetes will explore the patient pathway and how effective modelling – when pharma works together with healthcare stakeholders – can improve outcomes for both patients and the healthcare system. To read more, click here.