A Diabetes Specialist Nurse from Liverpool and the Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust were both top winners at a major diabetes awards which took place for the first time virtually.
Vicki Alabraba, who works for the Liverpool Diabetes Partnership, was the recipient of the Diabetes Professional of the Year trophy at the Quality in Care (QiC) Diabetes awards.
The official programme for next month’s DPC show has unveiled Professors Jonathan Valabhji and Partha Kar are set to play a staring role at the virtual event.
Together, they will provide an update on the Healthier You: The NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme, which has been adapted into a virtual service so people can continue with their progress remotely.
Band 5 and above Diabetes Specialist Nurses (DSNs) are being called upon to take part in a small-scale study to identify how their skills and qualifications relate to their job satisfaction. To read more, click here.
Trend Diabetes has published a new educational tool to help guide users through a global consensus report about hyperglycaemia management in type 2 diabetes. To read more, click here.
All pregnant women with type 1 diabetes will now be offered continuous glucose monitoring (CGM), Professor Partha Kar has confirmed.
In January, the NHS pledged in the ten-year plan that it would ensure the technology would be made available to expectant women with the autoimmune condition by 2021.
The award-winning Low Carb Program is now available on the G-Cloud 12 framework after it was approved last year.
The G-Cloud is an initiative targeted at easing procurement by public-sector bodies in departments of the United Kingdom Government. The framework is divided into three Lots: Cloud Hosting; Cloud Software; and Cloud Support.
The next generation of the FreeStyle Libre system has now been approved for use by people living with diabetes in Europe.
The FreeStyle Libre 3 technology provides continuous, real-time glucose readings automatically delivered to smartphones every minute.
Official approval has been sought to make Forxiga (dapagliflozin) the first sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitor available to treat people with chronic heart failure in Europe.
The AstraZeneca drug has been recommended for an indication extension of its marketing authorisation in the European Union (EU).
Toby Baker is Event Director of Diabetes Professional Care (DPC), the largest conference for healthcare professionals with an interest in the field of diabetes in the UK.
For the first time ever, the event is going virtual to ensure the safety of everyone amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Despite moving online, DPC2020 Virtual is still free and CPD accredited with many exciting plans yet to be unveiled.
A leading diabetes charity has teamed up with DPC 2020 to hold an online event for people with diabetes.
The Diabetes Research and Wellness Foundation (DRWF) has been unable to hold its highly successful award-winning regional wellness days across the country because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A top GP is set to unveil some ground-breaking research in the world of diabetes, blood pressure and heart disease.
Dr David Unwin, otherwise known as the Low Carb GP, is joining Consultant Cardiologist Dr Scott Murray to present a session at November’s virtual Diabetes Professional Care (DPC2020) show on Wednesday, November 11.
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Almost 300,000 people have accessed the online type 2 diabetes risk score tool to in the last two months, according to the NHS. To read more, click here.
A high percentage of people with diabetes are deliberately letting their blood sugar reach high levels in a bid to avoid hypos, a new survey has found. To read more, click here.
A researcher who specialises in discovering the cases of types of diabetes that affect babies has been named as Young Investigator of the Year by the International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD). To read more, click here.
The immune attack which kick starts the development of type 1 diabetes might start before a child has been born. The study also found it is possible for babies aged six months to develop the autoimmune condition. To read more, click here.
A series of webinars are being held to help people with diabetes and healthcare professionals learn how to use the world’s first downloadable artificial pancreas app. To read more, click here.
Olympic athlete James Cracknell completes major endurance event to explore the safety and physiological effects of ketosis in people with or without type 1 diabetes. To read more, click here.
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