Well over 4,000 delegates attended this year's Diabetes Professional Care (DPC2018), the organisers have confirmed.
The record-breaking figure has exceeded last year's total of 3,235 delegates. Only in its fourth year, DPC2018 is the UK’s only national, free-to-attend and CPD-accredited conference for those involved in the prevention, treatment and management of diabetes, and its related conditions.
The FreeStyle Libre will be prescribed to everyone with type 1 diabetes who qualifies for the technology from April 2019, NHS England announced on World Diabetes Day.
The game-changing flash monitoring device became available on the NHS from November last year subject to local health decision, but only two out of three NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups (CGGs) offer the technology, leaving people in some parts of the country unable to access the system unless they pay for it themselves.
The winners of the inaugural DPC Industry Awards, in association with The Diabetes Times, were named at Diabetes Professional Care (DPC2018).
Expert roundtable held at DPC2018 highlights benefits of more effective blood glucose monitoring
The self-monitoring of blood glucose is a “powerful tool” which “changes lives”, a roundtable discussion at Diabetes Professional Care 2018 (DCP2018) was told.
The comments were made at the discussion titled ‘How to deliver patient self-management and behaviour change at scale’ organised by The IDEAL (Insights for Diabetes Excellence, Access and Learning) Group.
The results of the eagerly-anticipated DECLARE study into cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes was shared for the first time in the UK at Diabetes Professional Care (DPC2018).
The research involved 17,000 people and showed how the drug Forxiga (dapagliflozin) reduced hospitalisation for heart failure or cardiovascular (CV) death with no increase in major CV events versus placebo in a broad population with type 2 diabetes.
Leading clinicians and policymakers participated in a “lively and engaging” debate about childhood obesity on the second day of a major diabetes conference.
Dr Max Davie, Health Promotion Officer at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health was joined by Dr Fiona Campbell, Consultant Diabetes Paediatrician at Leeds Children’s Hospital on the debating panel at Diabetes Professional Care (DPC2018).
Diabetes Digital Media (DDM) innovates in augmented and virtual reality: a new dawn for the diabetes community
Diabetes Times Editor Oliver Jelley spent a morning with DDM, experiencing a suite of cutting-edge VR applications first-hand.
A follow-up comic that was based on the hit Marvel series Wolverine: Origins and focussed on educating people about type 1 diabetes has been officially launched.
Type 1: Attack of the Ketones, the sequel to Type 1: Origins, was unveiled on the first day of Diabetes Professional Care (DPC2018) and also coincided with World Diabetes Day.
Online diabetes campaign launched
A campaign supported by The Guardian was launched on World Diabetes Day to help support people with diabetes. To read more, click here.
World Diabetes Day marked by online artworks
A leading global diabetes care company has published nearly 40 artworks online to show how families support, inspire and help those who have diabetes. To read more, click here.
Parents and carers of children and adults with diabetes experience mental health problems, according to a survey compiled by Diabetes UK. To read more, click here.
Use of the CONTOUR®DIABETES app can reduce the chances of hypoglycaemic and hyperglycaemic events in people with diabetes, clinical research has demonstrated.
The study was presented on November 8 at the Diabetes Technology Meeting in Maryland, America, as a poster by Ascensia Diabetes Care’s Andreas Stuhr, M.D., who is Head of Global Medical Affairs and lead author.
Professor Alan Sinclair who has a special interest in diabetes in older people has been named among the top 12 of the UK’s leading experts into the condition. To read more, click here.
Diabetes prescriptions are costing the NHS in England more than £1 billion a year, according to new figures from NHS Digital. To read more, click here.
Diabetes Digital Media wins two awards in a week
Midlands-based company Diabetes Digital Media has been honoured with two prestigious national awards this week for their work in the diabetes industry.
On November 14, which was also World Diabetes Day, the company picked up the Most Influential Diabetes Technology Company of the Year category at the Diabetes Professional Care (DPC2018) Industry Awards.
Details about the fourth conference of the Diabetes Self-Management Alliance have been announced.
The event ‘Diabetes self-management – putting the pieces together’ will take place in Glasgow at the Golden Jubilee Hotel on December 6 and 7, 2018.
Bringing you the latest jobs from around the country within the field of diabetes.
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Specialist Dietician Diabetes Lead – Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
The Libre story appears to be entering into its final phases, so it's probably time to talk about a bit broadly about a big challenge in type 1 diabetes care.
Technology in type 1 diabetes care... an area where the pace of evolving is faster than most health care systems can cope with. To read more, click here.
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