Healthcare professionals have been invited to apply for NICE’s diabetes guideline update committees.
The organisation is looking for experts to support the process of updating a series of diabetes guidelines, with the deadline for applications being Tuesday, August 27, at 5pm.
Children who are obese and have type 2 diabetes have “low self-esteem” and are prone to “stress and depression”, according to a leading paediatrician.
In response, Professor Timothy Barrett, Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Birmingham, has helped develop a series of recommendations in a bid to reduce type 2 diabetes rates among young people.
Three primary care organisations to adopt the Low Carb Program after winning Ascensia’s Type 2 Diabetes Remission Accelerator competition.
The Frome Medical Practice in Somerset, the Park Medical Centre in London and Freshwell Health Centre in Braintree, Essex were the successful candidates and will now be able to provide the award-winning diabetes behaviour change platform to their patients.
A total of 15 per cent of people with diabetes needed specialist emotional support in the past year to help them cope with their condition, according to a recent survey.
Conducted by Diabetes UK, more than 2,000 from across the UK were asked about their emotional and mental health support.
NHS bosses are too focussed on “spending pounds”, when they should be concentrating on helping people to “shift pounds”, according to a high-profile GP.
Dr David Unwin, otherwise known as the Low-Carb Doctor, said the solution to preventing and reversing type 2 diabetes is as simple as ditching pasta, potatoes, cereals and sugary snacks and eating more fish, meat, eggs and green vegetables.
A strategic council has been set up to give advice on how to improve the prevention and treatment of obesity.
The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Obesity recently held its inaugural meeting and decided to form a council, made up of leading academics, clinicians, policy-makers and patient representatives.
The importance of footcare has been a hot topic across University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) as staff have been taking part in the first Diabetes Foot Awareness Week. To read more, click here.
Best practice will be the focus of a free footcare conference which has been specifically designed for healthcare professionals who can now register to attend. To read more, click here.
An update on new outcomes from clinical trials in endocrinology will be given at a forthcoming meeting in September, organised by the Royal Society of Medicine. To read more, click here.
Diabetes Professional Care 2019 (DPC2019) and the Diabetes Times have once again joined forces, with the shared goal of improving diabetes care through information provision.
The conference and news outlet have pledged to build on a successful five-year partnership by increasing access to their free education and news across the NHS.
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