Inpatient diabetes teams have reduced medication errors, severe hypoglycaemia episodes and hospital-acquired diabetic foot lesions, according to the National Diabetes Inpatient Audit (NaDIA) 2019.
The annual report has shown that 75 per cent of those surveyed in 2019 were seen by the diabetes team where appropriate compared to only 54 per cent in 2010.
Healthcare professionals should be aware of the increased risk of harm in hospital inpatients with higher risk characteristics, according to the 2019 National Diabetes Inpatient Audit (NaDIA) – Harms.
NaDIA – Harms is a mandatory year-round collection of four harms that can occur to those with diabetes who are admitted to acute hospitals in England.
Nearly 6,000 healthcare professionals attended DPC2020 Virtual, with the event dubbed a “digital masterpiece”.
This year, because of COVID-19 restrictions, the CPD-accredited conference dedicated to diabetes, moved online for the first time.
A paediatric diabetes team in Southport has scooped a top regional healthcare award.
Led by Professor May Ng, the diabetes team based at Ormskirk hospital which serves people across West Lancashire, Southport and Formby came top in the 'Excellence in Healthcare' category at the NHS Parliamentary Awards.
Service management for footcare during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has been set out by a leading diabetes footcare network. To read more, click here.
The multi-award-winning Low Carb Program is celebrating its fifth anniversary of helping people to improve long-term health goals. To read more, click here.
Hard copies of a newly-published educational tool designed to guide healthcare professionals around the latest global consensus report about hyperglycaemia management in type 2 diabetes are now available.
Trend Diabetes has developed the ‘Person-Centred Care in Type 2 Diabetes’ document to help users navigate the ‘Management of hyperglycaemia in type 2 diabetes: A consensus report’ by American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) due to the lack of updated guidance from NICE.
Ten key priorities chosen by people with diabetes and clinicians which will help guide future research in diabetes and pregnancy, have been unveiled. To read more, click here.
Professor Andrew Hattersley from Exeter has been presented with Belgium’s highest scientific award for his diabetes discoveries. To read more, click here.
Netflix, YouTube and games consoles are contributing to a new culture of “sedentary children”, according to a leading type 2 diabetes professor. To read more, click here.
Healthcare professionals are being urged to encourage the people they treat who have type 1 diabetes to attend a free virtual event about technology. To read more, click here.
Bringing you the latest jobs from around the country within the field of diabetes.
Diabetes Specialist Nurse: Inpatient; Outpatients; Facilitator – Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Diabetes Specialist Nurse – Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Diabetes Specialist Dietitian – Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Lead Diabetes Clinical Nurse Specialist – Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Partha Kar's blog – Changing the 'rules'
Finally, after much debate and many discussions a national report on variation of care in diabetes (Getting It Right First Time or GIRFT) has finally come out. I won't go through it, as much time will be devoted to it in different formats. However, for this blog I wanted to focus on one area, which showcases some of the basic issues as regards patient care in type 1 diabetes. To read more, click here.
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