A multi-award-winning care home group has welcomed an innovative set of new guidelines which aim to improve care for residents living with diabetes following the successful launch of a training scheme in three of its centres.
Hallmark Care Homes held the first of many training sessions in collaboration with DUET diabetes recently at Henley Manor in Henley-on-Thames, Chamberlain Court in Royal Tunbridge Wells and Greenhill Manor in Merthyr Tydfil.
Supplies of NovoRapid are back in stock after an unforeseen delivery delay caused a shortage across the UK.
The issue was raised on social media, but manufacturer Novo Nordisk has moved to ensure a “continuous supply”.
Trainee registrars in the diabetes and endocrinology specialty across the UK are being asked to take part in a survey to help gain perspective on how they are treated within the workplace.
The anonymous survey, which takes approximately 10 minutes to complete, aims to help identify the work-related well-being concerns of diabetes specialist trainee registrars.
One in 10 adults in the UK have turned to their local pharmacy for advice on how to prevent serious health conditions such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease and cancer, a new YouGov survey has revealed.
Commissioned by the British Heart Foundation (BHF), Cancer Research UK, Diabetes UK and Tesco, the survey suggests that many people could be missing out on opportunities to access free advice via their local pharmacies that could help them make life-changing improvements to their health.
Obesity is a well-established risk factor for the development of type 2 diabetes and the milieu of related metabolic disorders, namely non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and cardiovascular disease. But what exactly is obesity, and why is there a need to look beyond our traditional measure of obesity, the body mass index?
Obesity is objectively measured using the body mass index (BMI), defined as a person’s body mass divided by the square of their body height (kg/m2).
A trusted community interest company has published two information standards for diabetes management.
The Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB) has released the guidance to ensure diabetes information documented by healthcare teams is captured in a single, digital space that is easily shareable between different systems.
Obesity rates in primary school children dropped in 2021/22 after reaching highest recorded levels the previous academic year, new provisional figures show. To read more, click here.
The UK’s must attend event for everyone involved in the treatment and management of diabetes is now open for registration. To read more, click here.
Leading nursing figures will be sharing their expertise at this year’s Community Nursing Now national conference. To read more, click here.
Hypo Awareness Week will return in October 2022 to once again spread awareness about hypoglycaemia. To read more, click here.
As part of a national project, a top Irish hospital aims to improve the management of integrated diabetes care across all healthcare settings. To read more, click here.
A new study has outlined the modifying effect type 2 diabetes has on cardiometabolic risk factor associations with retinal microvascular architecture. To read more, click here.
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