ABCD Announcements
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Abbott Diabetes Care to donate FreeStyle Libre 1 sensors to NHS TrustsDr Pratik ChoudharyTuesday, 26th January 2021 With over 30,000 people admitted to hospital with Covid-19, and up to a third of them with diabetes, we know you are working flat out. With the use of steroids in many patients, the need for glucose monitoring to support care in hospital and support... Read More |
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Covid-19 update: Guidance and Resources for primary care and patientsDr Dipesh Patel, ABCD ChairFriday, 22nd January 2021 The statement from PCDS, supported by ABCD and Diabetes UK contains useful updated information to share with community colleagues and patients. |
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London COVID-19 dexamethasone and hyperglycaemia: diabetes de-escalation guidanceDr Dipesh Patel, ABCD ChairFriday, 22nd January 2021 Released on 20th January 2021 by London NHS, London COVID-19 dexamethasone and hyperglycaemia: diabetes de-escalation guidance is now available for download. |
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ABCD and ABHI Position on Insulin PumpsProfessor Pratik Choudhary, DTN-UK ChairTuesday, 19th January 2021 ABCD and ABHI have released a joint position statement "Supporting Management of People with diabetes using Out-of-Warranty Pumps while Ensuring Appropriate Patient Choice". The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all diabetes outpatient services, but... Read More |
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Covid wave 2Dr Dipesh PatelTuesday, 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 |
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Call for Members to support the ACCEA scoring for ABCDDr Susannah Rowles, Secretary ABCDThursday, 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 |
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Launch of ABCD worldwide audit of testosterone deficiency in men with type 2 diabetesDr 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 |
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Diabetes UK Clinical Champions AnnouncedDr Dipesh PatelWednesday, 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. |
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ABCD Integrated Diabetes SurveyDinesh Nagi, ABCD Ex-Officio ChairWednesday, 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 |
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DTN-UK SurveyProfessor Pratik Choudhary and Dr Sufyan HussainWednesday, 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 |
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ABCD Welcomes the Publication of GIRFT report in Diabetes sub specialityDinesh Nagi, ABCD Ex-Officio ChairTuesday, 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 |
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ABCD DTN-UK endorses the International Consensus on Time in RangeEmma Wilmot, ABCD CommitteeTuesday, 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 |
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The British Journal of Diabetes Quality Improvement in Diabetes Award 2021 - deadline extended until 30th June 2021Dr Marie-France Kong, Editor BJDThursday, 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 |
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Society for Endocrinology Offers advice for Clinical services during 2nd Wave of COVID-19Dinesh Nagi, ABCD Ex-Officio ChairFriday, 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 |
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Glooko Announces New Medical Education Programme In Collaboration with the Diabetes Technology Network (DTN)GlookoTuesday, 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 |
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NICE recommends new treatment option for adults with obesity and non-diabetic hyperglycaemia who have a high risk of cardiovascular diseaseDr Dipesh PatelMonday, 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 |
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Illuminating Recent Treatment Aspects in Diabetes - The Fifth London SymposiumProfessor Michael D FeherFriday, 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 |
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CaReMe group leaflet for people with diabetesDr Umesh Dashora, ABCD Meeting SecretaryTuesday, 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 |
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ABCD and the Renal Association consensus document on screening for kidney diseaseDr Peter WinocourTuesday, 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 |
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The ABCD Diabetes and COVID National Diabetes Audit is still liveDr Rustam ReaThursday, 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 |