A team led by a consultant anaesthetist based in Newport has been named the winner of the prestigious Rowan Hillson Inpatient Safety Award 2019.
The team, led by Dr David Burckett-St.Laurent, from the Aneurin Bevin University Health Board, scooped the prize for a cross specialty working group who re-designed the perioperative care pathway for surgical patients with diabetes. Their work led to significant improvements for staff and people with diabetes.
Disruption to inpatient diabetes services created positive environments and opportunities for new ways of working, clinicians have stated in a new report.
The ‘Inpatient Diabetes Care during the COVID-19 pandemic’ carried out by Diabetes UK highlights the need to take account of the lessons learned during the first peak of COVID-19.
Diabetes Professional Care (DPC2020) has vowed to support NHS staff who are being urged to speed up the return to “near-normal levels of non-COVID health services”.
The organisation, founded by Maggie Meer, recently held a webinar with Dr David Strain and Professor Partha Kar to discuss clinical inertia and how diabetes staff can be helped as services start to open up.
Nurses who are “the backbone of the NHS” are being asked to have their say on prescribing practice within diabetes nursing.
The survey also explores confidence within their practice when caring for people with chronic kidney disease. Trend Diabetes, an organisation that supports all nurses working in diabetes care has launched a nationwide questionnaire.
A campaign to provide vital information about structured blood glucose monitoring to people with diabetes has been launched.
The Roche Diabetes Care initiative will provide people with material on how to monitor meaningfully and to help them better understand their blood glucose results. The information will be running across Facebook, YouTube and on the Accu-Chek website.
A panel of leading experts have been brought together in a bid to enhance diabetes care and the quality of life residents with diabetes living in care homes have in the future.
The main aim of the National Advisory Panel for Care Home Diabetes is to produce a Strategic Document of Diabetes Care that will provide recommendations focussing on producing the highest possible standards of diabetes care.
Guidance about what diabetes and endocrine clinical services can provide during the continue COVID-19 disruption and reduced capacity for clinical teams has been issued.
The document, Delivering Diabetes and Endocrine Services in Acute NHS Trusts during COVID-19 Pandemic reset, was formulated by ABCD.
A newly formed clinical group of diabetes, nephrology and transplantation experts has published evidence-based guidelines for all aspects of managing Post Transplantation Diabetes.
The Diabetic Nephropathy Clinical Speciality Group was brought together by ABCD and the Renal Association (RA).
“Considerable improvements” in diabetes-related footcare have been made, following a new report about the National Diabetes Foot Care Audit (NDFA).
The document details the aims, interventions tested, lessons learnt, results and conclusions of the NDFA Quality Improvement Collaborative commissioned to run from 2018-20.
An “eternal optimist”, Dr Umesh Dashora has worked with some of the leading names from within the field of diabetes.
Here, he tells The Diabetes Times how COVID-19 has permanently changed the landscape of diabetes care and what he thinks have been the most positives changes within treatment approached in recent times.
All Class I diabetes care medical devices made by Roche comply with Medical Device Regulation (MDR) after the company completed official documentation, it has been announced.
Roche has now signed the EU Declarations of Conformity which means insertion devices such as the Accu-Chek Link Assist and lancing devices, such as the Accu-Chek FastClix AST, fully comply with the MDR requirements.
Diabetes foot health professionals working in England have been invited the new English Footcare Network (EDFN). To read more, click here.
A forum aimed to “empower and enrich” inpatient healthcare professionals across the UK has been launched. To read more, click here.
Type 1 diabetes does not increase risk for hospitalisation from COVID-19, according to a newly published study. To read more, click here.
A Professor Partha Kar-backed project involving a group of people with type 1 diabetes has been praised for providing “respite” during the COVID-19 pandemic. To read more, click here.
The nominated candidates for three major Quality in Care (QiC) awards have been unveiled as people are being urged to vote for the most deserving winner. To read more, click here.
A company best known for its range of innovative blood glucose monitoring products has been selected as a finalist at this year’s Pharma Awards Europe. To read more, click here.
A new approach to predicting which babies will develop type 1 diabetes moves a step closer to routine testing for newborns which could avoid life-threatening complications. To read more, click here.
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to delayed diagnoses of type 1 diabetes and episodes of severe diabetic ketoacidosis among children, according to a newly published report. To read more, click here.
Healthcare professionals are being asked to participate in the first international audit looking at the do-it-yourself artificial pancreas system which has been launched by ABCD. To read more, click here.
Bringing you the latest jobs from around the country within the field of diabetes.
Specialist Podiatrist – Diabetes – Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Diabetes and Endocrinology Consultant – The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Diabetes Specialist Nurse – Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust
Psychologist Paediatric Diabetes – Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
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