An updated guideline on correct injection technique in diabetes care is now available to all healthcare professionals in the UK.
Trend Diabetes has published new national guidance on Injection Technique Matters (ITM) to ensure care teams are provided with the most up-to-date safety advice on injectable therapy.
Entitled ‘For Healthcare Professionals: CORRECT INJECTION TECHNIQUE IN DIABETES CARE. BEST PRACTICE GUIDELINE. 3rd edition’, the newly refreshed guideline seeks to support all clinicians with evidence-based clinical practice, information and guidance.
Trend Diabetes Co-Chairs Debbie Hicks and June James have updated the latest national guidance on ITM along with the organisation’s clinical committee members Erica Richardson, Sam Calder, Lisa King and Debbie Voigt.
Debbie Hicks said: “Thousands of clinicians across the UK deliver injection technique care using our ITM guidelines.
“They experience first-hand the benefits for their practice and the joy of seeing people with diabetes who use injectable therapies achieve their health potential.”
June James added: “Our goal is to make the guideline simple to implement and ultimately support the development of clinicians to become experts in insulin and GLP-1 RA delivery.
“By providing healthcare professionals with this guidance, they will be enabled to support people who inject to become experts on their own, leading to better health outcomes and improved health and wellbeing.”
Trend Diabetes’ ITM guidelines are being implemented by thousands of clinicians across the UK and other countries throughout the world, such as Southern Ireland, Germany, France, New Zealand and Australia.
To access the updated national ITM guidance, click here.
Healthcare professionals are being invited to attend a webinar to learn more about Trend Diabetes’ updated Injection Technique Matters guideline.
The online event has been designed to showcase the new national safety document entitled ‘For Healthcare Professionals: CORRECT INJECTION TECHNIQUE IN DIABETES CARE. BEST PRACTICE GUIDELINE. 3rdedition’.
It will take place on Wednesday, November 8, from 7pm to 8pm and Trend Diabetes Co-Chairs Debbie Hicks and June James will lead the discussions.
They will inform attendees on how to implement correct injection technique in people with diabetes and promote their new guideline, which is now available to all healthcare professionals in the UK.
Entitled ‘Injection Technique – How safe is your practice?’, the webinar is now open for registration.
To sign up, register here.
Three Trend Diabetes’ guidelines now available in Welsh
Healthcare professionals from Wales can now access some of Trend Diabetes’ guidelines in Welsh thanks to a senior diabetes specialist nurse.
Ravinder Dosanjh has translated three Trend Diabetes documents into Welsh – Diabetes: Safe Driving and the DVLA, Diabetes: Why do I sometimes feel shaky, dizzy and sweaty? Hypoglycaemia explained and Type 2 diabetes and steroid tablets.
Since joining our advisory board this year, Ravinder is a much-valued member of the Trend Diabetes Team.
These guidelines are now available in Welsh below:
Diabetes: Safe Driving and the DVLA
Diabetes: Why do I sometimes feel shaky, dizzy and sweaty? Hypoglycaemia explained
Trend Diabetes in the Wirral
Earlier this year we trained Band 3 staff at the Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust to independently administer insulin to non-complex individuals in the community setting.
We provided the team with a better understanding of diabetes, how to use insulin pens and different types of insulin, as well as different ways to use needle gauges.
According to the Trust, staff have come away from the training feeling positive and engaged in this project and excited to implement this new role into their scope of clinical skills and associated clinical competency.
The Trust said: “As a Community Trust we cannot recommend Trend Diabetes enough. Their bespoke approach to training and approachable, friendly manner was a key fundamental factor in the provision of this training.
“Following review of staff feedback, I have no doubt that all of the delegates will go on to complete the additional elements of the training successfully and champion this new additional clinical skill into their Band 3 role.”
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Did you know that of the 350,000 digital health apps available in the UK, only 80% meet quality and safety standards?
This result may be due to limited visibility into what apps people are using, how they are using them and whether there may be more higher quality options available.
Hedia has created a free CPD accredited course to help diabetes nurses working in the NHS understand what this technology is, how to identify the right solutions and how to safely prescribe them to people living with the condition.
Is this course right for you?
If you are a healthcare professional working with diabetes in the UK then you are almost certainly using some form of digital health technology with people with diabetes already.
By building a foundation of knowledge about digital therapeutics you will be better equipped to advise people with diabetes on choosing the right app for their individual needs.
Who are we?
Hedia is a company that has built a diabetes management app that is available in 11 European countries including the UK.
Hedia's mission is simple: "Make life easier for people with diabetes requiring insulin."
One of the ways Hedia does this is by providing free education to healthcare professionals, because it understands that making your life easier will translate into a better quality of care for patients.
Learn more about what Hedia on its website - https://www.hedia.com/
