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Input required for diabetes inpatient roadmap

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Progress report on NHS England’s type 2 prevention drive published

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ATTD publishes CGM recommendations

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Inpatient collaborative training course planned

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Clinical teams asked to complete guideline survey

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Persistence ‘strongly influenced’ by medication class for type 2

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The 2017 Chronicles – Dr Partha Kar’s latest blog post

Dr Partha Kar reflects on all that 2017 had in store for the diabetes healthcare community...

2017. Done. From a professional perspective, it's been a year of getting to prefixed targets set, nothing more, nothing less.
No point in beating about the bush... the NHS is in turmoil with a swirl of politics, elections, more changes beating an incessant drum which has made life suffocating, difficult to concentrate on the job at hand. Yet… albeit from a biased point of view, we in the NHS England diabetes team can perhaps look back at 2017 with a bit of a smile.

Landing the Transformation funds was a big step forward with the process of allocation of money, perhaps being character-building. Either way, at the end of it all, £62 odd million was distributed out, with a further rollout of the National Type 2 Diabetes Prevention Programme. About $5 million specifically was to increase specialist nurses in hospitals to tackle hospital safety issues; about £11 million went to improve uptake of structured education etc. Will money solve it? Nope, but it certainly goes a long way to answering some critics, as well as kick-starting some of the much-needed processes that diabetes care needed.

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Breast cancer and type 2 diabetes study receives major grant

A major grant has been awarded so researchers can investigate why breast cancer is more likely to spread in those with type two diabetes, it has been announced.

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Input required for diabetes inpatient roadmap

Healthcare professionals are being encouraged to participate in building a strategy for improving diabetes inpatient care.

Diabetes UK is developing the roadmap, because the charity says there are “too many people with diabetes [who] aren’t getting the care they need when they stay in hospital”. To read more, click here .

Progress report on NHS England’s type 2 prevention drive published

More than 110,000 people ‘at risk’ of developing type 2 diabetes have been offered help by NHS England’s national programme to prevent the condition, according to a progress report.

A study published this week in Diabetic Medicine charts the impact of the Healthier You: NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme made during the early phase of the roll-out. It has been co-authored by experts from NHS England, Public Health England and Diabetes UK. To read more, click here.

ATTD publishes CGM recommendations

New consensus recommendations on use of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) have been published.

They come from the Advanced Technologies & Treatments for Diabetes (ATTD) Congress and were published by Diabetes Care in an article called The International Consensus on Use of Continuous Glucose Monitoring. To read more, click here.

Inpatient collaborative training course planned

An eight-month collaborative training course aimed at inpatient staff has been launched to help teams facilitate changes and improvements in patient care.

The Royal College of Physicians’ (RCP) Quality Improvement (QI) Hub has teamed up with Diabetes UK to host the sessions which are due to take place in London and Liverpool in March. To read more, click here.

Clinical teams asked to complete guideline survey

Healthcare professionals are being invited to part in a survey about the quality and impact of diabetes inpatient guidelines.

The Joint British Diabetes Societies (JBDS) for Inpatient Care group was created in 2008 to ‘deliver a set of diabetes inpatient guidelines and proposed standards of care within secondary care organisations’. To read more, click here.

Persistence ‘strongly influenced’ by medication class for type 2

Persistence is strongly influenced by medication class and should be considered when initiating treatments for people with type 2 diabetes, according to research.

A study has been carried out to explore which oral therapies have the best persistence in controlling the condition. The research team compared different medications with a person’s persistence and how they responded to the drugs. To read more, click here.

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Annual care standards published by ADA

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) has published its annual care recommendations to reflect the latest advances in evidence-based research.

Notable new recommendations in the 2018 edition of Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes (Standards of Care) include advances in cardiovascular disease risk management including hypertension and an updated, patient-focused care. To read more, click here.

Type 1 Diabetes Clinical Collaborative–UK to host webinar

Healthcare professionals are being offered the chance to view a webinar about flash glucose monitoring and continuous glucose monitoring as part of a drive to improve type 1 diabetes care. To read more, click here.

'Flash map' developed

A flash glucose monitoring map has been developed to help people with diabetes pinpoint what the technology policy is in their local area.

The Diabetes UK Flash Map will help users to find out the situation in their area, showing the decisions on access in each area that the organisation is already are aware of.

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Professor receives international award for diabetes services

A leading professor from Leicester who helped establish an international centre of excellence in diabetes research has been recognised for his work by a global authority on the condition.

Professor Kamlesh Khunti, co-director of the Leicester Diabetes Centre (LDC), was presented with the Outstanding Achievement Service Award at the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) Congress 2017, having been recognised for contributions to a number of work programmes with the International Diabetes Federation including Chairing the recent Intergrating Diabetes Evidence into Practice Report.

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Metformin side effects leading to poor adherence

A third of people do not take their prescribed metfomin due to side effects, according to a study.

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Diabetes and Ramadan conference dates announced

Healthcare professionals who treat people with diabetes who observe Ramadan are invited to attend a conference dedicated to the subject in March.

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Predictors found for poor metformin response in gestational diabetes

Age, higher pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) and earlier introduction of metformin could be used as predictors of poor response to the drug in gestational diabetes.

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