Community nurses can now access a new educational toolkit on sensor technology thanks to a leading diabetes organisation.
Launched by Trend Diabetes, the free toolkit can be used by anyone wanting to become proficient in using sensor technology including practice nurses, clinical pharmacists, GPs and care home staff.
A global healthcare company has announced that the FreeStyle Libre 3 app is now available to download on Apple devices.
Abbott has announced that many more users can now continuously access their glucose data through their smartphone after the app was initially only available on Android operating systems.
A diabetes nursing group has launched a continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) comparison chart to help people with type 1 diabetes choose the most appropriate product for them.
The Diabetes Specialist Nurse (DSN) Forum UK worked with the Diabetes Technology Network (DTN) UK to develop the chart in response to the updated NICE guidance and the increased choice of products becoming available to prescribe in primary care.
Healthcare professionals are being urged to fill in a survey to help identify the right number of staff needed to deliver an ideal, state-of-the-art inpatient diabetes service in the UK.
Published by the Joint British Diabetes Societies for Inpatient Care (JBDS-IP), the online questionnaire will help the organisation recognise what healthcare professionals are needed to deliver good diabetes care in hospital.
“Passionate" healthcare professionals with a broad range of experience in the field of diabetes are being sought to join a Diabetes UK research steering group.
The groups bring together healthcare professionals, researchers and people living with diabetes to pinpoint precisely where further research needs to happen to improve the lives of those living with the condition.
Healthcare teams specialising in adult services are being sought to join a National Diabetes Audit (NDA) Quality Improvement Collaborative.
The NDA has launched a recruitment drive as it aims to address gaps in the use of insulin pumps by people living with type 1 diabetes.
Intermittently scanned glucose monitoring technology significantly improves the management of type 1 diabetes, according to a study published in a prestigious health research journal.
The findings of a study conducted at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH) and seven other Trusts across the country has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which makes the case for more people to have access to continuous blood glucose monitoring technology.
Diabetes teams based at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Luton and Dunstable were presented with a distinguished award for its “interactive” insulin safety campaign. To read more, click here.
Adults with type 1 diabetes have good glycaemic control when using multiple daily injections of insulin and intermittently scanned continuous glucose monitoring, academics have said. To read more, click here.
Latest innovations and key updates surrounding diabetes nursing will be explored at a free healthcare event next month. To read more, click here.
Several general practitioners will explore the latest innovations in diabetes care at this year’s DPC conference. To read more, click here.
A new study into treating food addiction with a low carbohydrate and psychoeducational program has been carried out. To read more, click here.
The lives of hundreds of people with type 2 diabetes have been transformed by an international project. To read more, click here.
The prevalence of reception-aged children living with obesity in England is more than twice as high in the most deprived areas compared to more affluent neighbourhoods. To read more, click here.
A pilot study of 795 people with prediabetes has shown the significant potential of ICB-managed text messaging to engage individuals with health intervention programmes. To read more, click here.
Diabetes guidance for primary healthcare professionals was discussed at a national general practice show last month. To read more, click here.
Differences in real-world use of glucose-lowering medications across the US, Sweden and Israel have been highlighted. To read more, click here.
It's been that time of the year again. A diabetes conference, and one of the flagships of the year. The European Association of Study for Diabetes conference in Stockholm. And with time, the way one sees conferences or gains something or anything from them has changed for me personally. To read more, click here.
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