Data at the American Diabetes Association 82nd Scientific Sessions shows that Abbott’s FreeStyle Libre® 3 system is the first and only 14-day continuous glucose monitor (CGM) system to achieve a mean absolute relative difference (MARD) of less than 8%.
MARD is considered the simplest measurement of sensor accuracy and represents the difference between a CGM system’s glucose readings and a reference blood glucose measurement. The lower the MARD, the more accurate the CGM system.
Professor May Ng has been awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Her Majesty the Queen for her commitments to improving the care of people with diabetes and people with autism.
Dr Fiona Campbell, a Consultant in Paediatric Diabetes in Leeds, has been given an Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Her Majesty the Queen for services to children and young people with diabetes.
A leading diabetes group is inviting healthcare professionals to join its inpatient nursing committee.
The Diabetes Inpatient Specialist Nurses (DISN) UK Group is expanding its committee to have a bigger influence on national inpatient improvement measures.
Healthcare professionals working in primary care can increase their knowledge of and confidence in flash glucose monitoring and continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) thanks to a new suite of resources.
They have been put together by the award-winning EDEN (Effective Diabetes Education Now) programme alongside Abbott and Dexcom. The resources will be available nationally for all healthcare professionals in primary care from June 27 following Diabetes Week, which runs from Monday, June 13, to Sunday, June 19.
The Diabetes 10 Point Training (D10PT) programme is now available to health and social care staff as part of the Cambridge Diabetes Education Programme (CDEP).
CDEP has partnered with the North West London Integrated Care System and North West London Clinical Commissioning Group to host this training, which was developed by Diabetes Nurse Consultant Ruth Miller.
Abbott has announced that it is developing a first-of-its-kind biowearable that will continuously monitor glucose and ketone levels in one sensor.
The device promises to redefine care for people with diabetes who are at risk of developing the life-threatening complication diabetic ketoacidosis.
Healthcare professionals working in diabetes care are being encouraged to fill out a survey on the use of technology within hospital settings.
The Joint British Diabetes Societies for Inpatient Care (JBDS-IP) has launched the DTN inpatient technology survey to establish how technology is used amongst hospitals when treating people with diabetes.
A professor named a ‘world expert’ in diabetes and older people has marked his 70th birthday by continuing to fly the flag for the “silent majority”.
Professor Alan Sinclair revealed retirement is far from his thoughts and said he has a lot more to achieve in raising the standards of care for older people and further establishing frailty as a prognostic clinical complication of diabetes.
The first Trend Diabetes in-person event for almost two years has been described as a “reunion of friends”, as more than two hundred delegates came together to learn about the latest best practice in diabetes nursing.
The London leg of the organisation’s National Conference 2022, entitled ‘Guidelines Help or Hindrance?’, took place on Friday, June 10, at the Thistle Marble Arch hotel in London.
Healthcare professionals involved in community nursing are invited to attend the Community Nursing Now National Conference 2022 dedicated to the subject in September. To read more, click here.
A campaign has been launched to raise awareness of diabulimia, a severe and life-threatening eating behaviour disorder in people with insulin-dependent diabetes. To read more, click here.
A few days away at an international conference - ATTD 2022 (Advanced Technology & Therapeutics in Diabetes). A phrase that had lost its poignance and significance as we battled with a pandemic. This opportunity perhaps showcased how common it was, yet how much we missed the human contact, the opportunity to talk to people in the flesh, and simply the camaraderie. To read more, click here.
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