£40m pledged to support people with diabetes – No 69

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£40m pledged to support people with diabetes

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Baby genetics could help predict type 2

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Success for hypo campaign

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Policeman prevents motorway hypo crash

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Cholesterol-lowering gene variants linked to type 2 risk

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DSN Spotlight – Amanda Malinga and Graham Taft

Amanda Malinga and Graham Taft have 20 years combined experience working within the NHS.

As senior diabetes specialist nurses they have their say on what they want to see changing when it comes to diabetes care. To read more, click here.

Say something – Dr Partha Kar’s latest blog post

It burns. It absolutely sears a mark in you - and if you haven't experienced it, you will never ever understand it.

Doesn't matter how many equality and diversity courses you do, you just won't get it.

Many emotions boil within and how one reacts to it does perhaps depend on your personality – whether you deal with it by leaving, or by sarcasm, simply shutting up or even lashing out.

But it burns nonetheless. Comments about being a foreigner or someone who doesn't belong... it burns.

To read more, click here.

Lifestyle change could reduce type 2 risk by 80 per cent

Type 2 diabetes could be slashed by 80 per cent if more was done to encourage people with “pre-diabetes” diagnoses to change their lifestyles, according to new research.

To read more, click here.

£40m pledged to support people with diabetes

A total of £40m has been pledged to support a wider programme of investment in helping treat and care for people who already have diabetes.

The plans were unveiled in the 2017-2019 NHS Operational Planning and Contracting document. To read more, click here.

Baby genetics could help predict type 2

Genetic differences in babies have been discovered which might help determine their chances of developing type 2 diabetes and other diseases in later life. To read more, click here.

Success for hypo campaign

A total of 136 sites across the UK have been taking part in Hypo Awareness Week.

The annual campaign gives healthcare professionals and the diabetes community the opportunity to discuss hypoglycaemia in hospitals and primary care settings.

A total of 23 primary care sites, four networks and one care home signed up to take part and the rest of the participating sites were hospitals from all over the country. To read more, click here.

Policeman prevents motorway hypo crash

A woman who had a hypo and passed out while driving on a motorway with her baby in the car was safely forced off the road by the police.

PC Daniel Pattison responded to reports of a car swerving and colliding with the central reservation on the M1 in Leicestershire. To read more, click here.

Cholesterol-lowering gene variants linked to type 2 risk

Certain genetic variants related to reduced low-density lipoprotein cholesterol may raise the risk of type 2 diabetes, according to a new study.

More than half a million people were meta-analysed and researchers found that variants near NPC1L1 and other genes associated with the reduction of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) were linked to a greater type 2 diabetes risk. To read more, click here.

DIABETES DIGEST

Scottish pilot to target diabetes hospital care

A pilot is underway in Scottish hospitals to teach staff how to treat people with diabetes.

The initiative has been launched because a fifth of inpatients suffer potentially life-threatening blood sugar lows. To read more, click here.

Risk score translated into more languages

A risk score to identify people who are likely to develop type 2 diabetes has been translated into two further languages. To read more, click here.

Insulin absorption in lipohypertrophy is poor

A new study has confirmed people with type 1 diabetes do not absorb insulin effectively when injecting into lipohypertrophy (LH). To read more, click here.

BBC damning report highlights type 2 diabetes epidemic

Britain is in the grip of a health epidemic that is threatening to overwhelm the NHS, a BBC Panorama investigation has claimed.

To read more, click here.

NINJABETIC – Hypo Awareness Week

As it’s Hypo Awareness Week, it makes sense to focus on the topic that plays such a big part in the lives of people with diabetes. To read more, click here.

The Diabetes Manager – Don't lose heart

Abigail Kitt's latest blog post as a Diabetes Manager: Did anyone notice? I had a bit of a summer break, but I am now back on the blogging wagon. To read more, click here.

Worrying trend over children's electronic media

Children are exercising less and jeopardising a healthy night’s sleep because of technology, according to a study. To read more, click here.