ABCD Announcements

	Covid wave 2 Dr Dipesh Patel Tuesday, 12th January 2021 This new year, we find ourselves in perilous times managing a recurrent viral surge (resulting from a mutated strain) which seems to be steeper than the last. Vulnerable elderly people and front-line staff are actively being vaccinated, but we seem... Read More
	Call for Members to support the ACCEA scoring for ABCD Dr Susannah Rowles, Secretary ABCD Thursday, 7th January 2021 Calling all ABCD members who hold a National Clinical Excellence Award (CEA) award….. Your help is needed urgently! CEA’s were paused during 2020 due to the pandemic but now the process for citation and ranking of applications has been... Read More
	Launch of ABCD worldwide audit of testosterone deficiency in men with type 2 diabetes Dr Bob Ryder (Website Co-ordinator, Clinical Lead, ABCD Nationwide Audits) Thursday, 17th December 2020 This week at the ABCD Conference 2020, ABCD is pleased to announce the launch of the ABCD worldwide audit of testosterone deficiency in men with type 2 diabetes. The condition has a high prevalence - 40% of men with type 2 diabetes have... Read More
	Diabetes UK Clinical Champions Announced Dr Dipesh Patel Wednesday, 2nd December 2020 Diabetes UK have announced the new cohort of clinical champions to help transform services and improve local care. You may recognise some of your colleagues in the list, please do wish them well and provide local support.
	ABCD Integrated Diabetes Survey Dinesh Nagi, ABCD Ex-Officio Chair Wednesday, 2nd December 2020 ABCD executive team will be delighted if you can complete this short survey which is designed to gain some early insight into the state of integrated care, both clinical as well as supported by IT in the UK. In addition, we are keen to find out... Read More
	DTN-UK Survey Professor Pratik Choudhary and Dr Sufyan Hussain Wednesday, 18th November 2020 For the past 6 months or so, we have all been working under exceptional circumstances and in very different ways. In terms of technology and diabetes. We know there have been moves towards virtual working to different degrees in different... Read More
	ABCD Welcomes the Publication of GIRFT report in Diabetes sub speciality Dinesh Nagi, ABCD Ex-Officio Chair Tuesday, 17th November 2020 ABCD welcomes the publication of the final GIRFT report for Diabetes, which was released on world Diabetes Day. ABCD has been fully supportive of the primary aims of the GIRFT workstream, namely to improve quality of diabetes care in hospitals, and... Read More
	ABCD DTN-UK endorses the International Consensus on Time in Range Emma Wilmot, ABCD Committee Tuesday, 17th November 2020 Last year Tadej Battelino and colleagues published the International Consensus on time in range which can be found here: https://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/early/2019/06/07/dci19-0028 These international guidelines, combined with... Read More
	The British Journal of Diabetes Quality Improvement in Diabetes Award 2021 - deadline extended until 30th June 2021 Dr Marie-France Kong, Editor BJD Thursday, 12th November 2020 The British Journal of Diabetes, in conjunction with the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists (ABCD) and the Young Diabetologist and Endocrinologist Forum (YDEF) are pleased to announce the launch of our inaugural quality improvement in... Read More
	Society for Endocrinology Offers advice for Clinical services during 2nd Wave of COVID-19 Dinesh Nagi, ABCD Ex-Officio Chair Friday, 6th November 2020 We are well into the undesirable 2nd wave of COVID-19 and hospitals are filling up with increasing numbers of patients require hospital services. Clearly, at times like this it is important that Diabetes and Endocrine teams maintain essential... Read More
	Glooko Announces New Medical Education Programme In Collaboration with the Diabetes Technology Network (DTN) Glooko Tuesday, 3rd November 2020 New education platform focuses on diabetes technology training, data management and remote patient monitoring (RPM) Glooko AB ("Glooko" or "The Company") today announced, in partnership with the Diabetes Technology... Read More
	NICE recommends new treatment option for adults with obesity and non-diabetic hyperglycaemia who have a high risk of cardiovascular disease Dr Dipesh Patel Monday, 2nd November 2020 NICE approve Saxenda injections (GLP-1 therapy) for people with pre-diabetes who have BMI of at least 35 kg/m2 and high cardiovascular risk. Further details outlined on NICE website: https://www.nice.org.uk/news/article/nice-recommends-new-... Read More
	Illuminating Recent Treatment Aspects in Diabetes - The Fifth London Symposium Professor Michael D Feher Friday, 16th October 2020 The London Symposium has been a successful whole-day Symposium on the latest aspects of diagnosis and treatments specific to Diabetes. Due to the pandemic, the Symposium has been converted into three separate webinars covering several... Read More
	CaReMe group leaflet for people with diabetes Dr Umesh Dashora, ABCD Meeting Secretary Tuesday, 13th October 2020 Cardiology, Renal and Metabolic (CaReMe) group have produced a very helpful leaflet for people with diabetes on SGLT-2 inhibitors. SGLT-2 inhibitors are being increasingly used in people with type 2 diabetes to improve diabetes control with... Read More
	ABCD and the Renal Association consensus document on screening for kidney disease Dr Peter Winocour Tuesday, 13th October 2020 It is vital that all health care professionals understand why cardiac and renal risk require BOTH measurement of urine albumin creatinine ratios AS WELL as eGFR. ABCD and the Renal Association, along with ... Read More
	The ABCD Diabetes and COVID National Diabetes Audit is still live Dr Rustam Rea Thursday, 8th October 2020 The ABCD Diabetes and COVID National Diabetes Audit is still live. We have collected data from over 30 hospitals and over 1600 people admitted to hospital with diabetes who have had COVID in the last 9 months. The first analysis... Read More
	Free insulin safety training e-leaning module launched Dr Susannah Rowles, Secretary ABCD Tuesday, 6th October 2020 Free insulin safety training e-leaning module launched NHS trusts and Primary Care Networks are being urged to roll out a new online insulin safety course which has been launched with the aim of reducing insulin error by providing free... Read More
	Language Matters Dr Dipesh Patel Friday, 25th September 2020 Prof Partha Kar has recently launched this web based resource, which represents an aide, highlighting the challenges in achieving optimal dialogue during consultations and provides tips on how to improve on this which can lead to more... Read More
	More information re the winners of the Rowan Hillson Inpatient Safety Award 2019 Professor Ketan Dhatariya – JBDS Chair Thursday, 17th September 2020 This is to announce the results of this national competition for the ‘Best Perioperative Pathway for People with Diabetes’. One winner and one runner up were identified. There were 12 entries, and we are very grateful to Dr Rowan Hillson and her... Read More
	Winners of the Rowan Hillson Inpatient Safety Award 2019 Dr Umesh Dashora, ABCD Meeting Secretary Friday, 11th September 2020 Winners of the Rowan Hillson Inpatient Safety Award 2019: Best Perioperative Pathway for People with Diabetes (Joint British Diabetes Societies for Inpatient Care) This is to announce the results of this national competition... Read More