ABCD Announcements

ABCD at 10 Downing Street

Dr Emma Wilmot
Tuesday, 2nd July 2019
Dr Dinesh Nagi, ABCD chair, Dr Pratik Choudhary and Dr Emma Wilmot, ABCD DTN-UK chair and ex-chair and ABCD trustee Ketan Dhataryia were invited to Downing Street by Prime Minister, Theresa May. They attended a Reception at Number 10 which... Read More

CGM pregnancy guidance offered as specialists share knowledge in new partnership

Dinesh Nagi, Chair ABCD
Friday, 21st June 2019
Expert advice on continuous glucose monitoring in women with type 1 diabetes during pregnancy will be offered at a leading conference ahead of a national rollout. Access to specialist diabetes knowledge at Diabetes Professional Care 2019 (... Read More

ABCD audit of FreeStyle Libre device for flash glucose monitoring shows improved diabetes control in Type 1 diabetes and fewer hospital admissions

Dr Chris Walton (ex Officio Chairman)
Tuesday, 11th June 2019
A national UK audit of the first technology device allowed to be prescribed for people with Type 1 Diabetes, presented at the American Diabetes Association in San Francisco, shows important benefits both in lowering glucose levels in those with... Read More

DUK call on NHS to do more for the mental health of people with diabetes

Dr Ansu Basu Elected Committee Member
Monday, 10th June 2019
On 14 May, Diabetes UK launched a report on mental health and diabetes which shows that 7 out of 10 people have felt overwhelmed by the demands of living with diabetes and three quarters of people with diabetes can't get the emotional and mental... Read More

National Diabetes Inpatient Audit reveals slow increases in specialist staff numbers and use of electronic prescribing in 2018

Dr Dipesh Patel, Elected Honorary Meetings Secretary
Monday, 10th June 2019
NHS Digital have released the latest figures from the National Diabetes Inpatient Audit (NaDIA). The NaDIA measures the quality of diabetes care provided to people with diabetes while they are admitted to hospital whatever the cause, and aims to... Read More

Simon Stevens: Obesity has become the “new smoking”

Dr Bob Ryder (Website Co-ordinator, Clinical Lead, ABCD Nationwide Audits)
Tuesday, 4th June 2019
Simon Stevens, Chief Executive, NHS England, has warned, that “obesity is the new smoking”, after calculations showed that cancers caused by obesity will increase by 62 per cent by the end of the next decade. Some 360,000 people in Britain will... Read More

NHS England announces new online support for people living with type 2 diabetes

Dr Susannah Rowles, Honorary General Secretary
Tuesday, 4th June 2019
NHS advice will be offered online to people with type 2 diabetes to help them manage their condition via a first of its kind service. The new offer, will mean people with type 2 diabetes have evidence-based information and support available at... Read More

FSL audit 2nd data deadline passes successfully – now the audit continues

Emma Wilmot, Chair, Diabetes Technology Network
Wednesday, 29th May 2019
We wish to thank all those who worked so hard to submit data in time for our second deadline, and we are pleased to inform you that we had 296 users from 156 sites in 114 centres contributing data on 6644 patients.  5589 patients had a least... Read More

Updated ABCD Position Statement

Umesh Dashora (ABCD Committee Member, News editor, BJD)
Friday, 24th May 2019
The Association of British Clinical Diabetologists (ABCD) has updated our position statement on the use of sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors in type 1 diabetes. Umesh Dashora, Dipesh C Patel, Robert Gregory, Peter Winocour, Ketan... Read More

Download the winning submissions from the 2019 Rowan Hillson Insulin Safety award

Dr Umesh Dashora
Thursday, 9th May 2019
I am pleased to share the entries which won Rowan Hillson Inpatient Safety Award this year. You might find some of the ideas in these entries quite easy and useful to replicate in your institution. Please e mail me at u.dashora@nhs.... Read More

2018 Rowan Hillson Inpatient Safety Award Winners

Umesh Dashora (ABCD Committee Member, News editor, BJD), Erwin Castro and Debbie Stanisstreet
Monday, 29th April 2019
Announcing the results of this national competition for ‘the best inpatient educational programme for Health Care Professionals’. One winner and two runners up were identified. There were 7 entries, and we are very grateful to Dr Rowan Hillson... Read More

ABCD Nationwide FreeStyle Libre Audit – New Data Deadline - 21st May 2019

Professor Thozhukat Sathyabalan, Clinical Lead, ABCD Nationwide FSL Audit
Tuesday, 23rd April 2019
This next deadline of 21st May for data submission to the ABCD nationwide FreeStyle Libre audit has been set for two reasons.  An updated analysis will be undertaken to form the data that will be presented at the  American... Read More

CREDENCE - Primary renal outcome benefit demonstrated with Canagliflozin 100mg . Published in NEJM April 14th 2019

Peter Winocour (Chairman ABCD, 2008-2011)
Tuesday, 23rd April 2019
Abstract of published paper: In this double-blind, randomized trial, we assigned patients with type 2 diabetes and albuminuric chronic kidney disease to receive canagliflozin, an oral SGLT2 inhibitor, at a dose of 100 mg... Read More

ABCD nationwide FreeStyle Libre audit shows improved diabetes control in people with Type 1 diabetes during the first 6 months of usage

Emma Wilmot, Chair, Diabetes Technology Network
Thursday, 7th March 2019
Press release: Association of British Clinical Diabetologists (ABCD) nationwide audit of  the FreeStyle Libre Flash Glucose Monitoring System (Abbott Laboratories) shows improved diabetes control in people with Type 1 diabetes during... Read More

Launch of the ABCD nationwide semaglutide audit at Diabetes UK

Dr Bob Ryder (Website Co-ordinator, Clinical Lead, ABCD Nationwide Audits)
Thursday, 7th March 2019
Today at Diabetes UK, ABCD is pleased to announce the full launch of the nationwide semaglutide audit. As you will know, the clinical trials with semaglutide suggest that it is more effective than the other GLP-1 receptor agonists that we have to... Read More

Release of  “Consensus position statement for Remission of Type 2 diabetes", prepared jointly with Primary Care Diabetes Society

Dr Dinesh Nagi, Chair ABCD Committee
Monday, 4th March 2019
ABCD is delighted to announce the release of  “Consensus position statement for Remission of Type 2 diabetes, prepared jointly with Primary Care Diabetes Society”  We understand the importance of this consensus definition and have... Read More

Diabetes patient groups call on Government to reassure patients on post-Brexit insulin supply

Dr Chris Walton (ex Officio Chairman)
Thursday, 21st February 2019
Two patient groups representing people with diabetes, Diabetes UK and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) have issued a joint statement calling on the Government to present ‘concrete detail’ on its plans to guarantee supply of... Read More

The ASK Study

Dr Bob Ryder (Website Co-ordinator, Clinical Lead, ABCD Nationwide Audits)
Tuesday, 5th February 2019
We would kindly ask you to participate in The ASK Study, a collaborative study of King's College London (UK) and Leeds Beckett University (UK).   The ASK Study is an online questionnaire which explores beliefs about obesity,... Read More

Help us plan future JBDS documents

Dr. Umesh Dashora, ABCD Co-opted - News editor, BJD
Tuesday, 5th February 2019
We are inviting colleagues to help us plan future JBDS documents by completing a short questionnaire. Many thanks to everyone who has fed back already.  

Best Inpatient Diabetes Educational Programme for Health Care Professionals

Professor Mike Sampson (Chair JBDS-IP)
Thursday, 31st January 2019
We are inviting colleagues to submit entries to this year’s competition which will be for the: ‘Best Inpatient Educational Diabetes Programme for Health Care Professionals’ This JBDS – IP project is being led by Umesh Dashora, Debbie... Read More

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