ABCD Announcements

	RCP QI Hub/Diabetes UK - Improving care in inpatient diabetes Peter Winocour (Chairman ABCD, 2008-2011) Friday, 19th January 2018 The Royal College of Physicians’ QI Hub, in conjunction with Diabetes UK, will be running a rescheduled quality improvement collaborative for clinicians and their teams working in inpatient diabetes from March—October 2018. For further information... Read More
	ACCEA announcement Professor Alan Sinclair, ABCD Committee member - Lead for ACCEA Tuesday, 16th January 2018 Please be aware that the 2018 Clinical Excellence Awards round will open on Tuesday 13 February and will close at 5:00pm on Thursday 12 April. ACCEA will accept applications for new national awards and from those due to renew their award in 2018... Read More
	Time To Join ABCD Nationwide FreeStyle Libre Audit Professor Thozhukat Sathyapalan, Clinical Lead, ABCD Nationwide FSL Audit Tuesday, 16th January 2018 Clinical staff using FreeStyle Libre should now start collecting data for the FreeStyle Libre nationwide audit. The online tool for data entry is currently being developed on N3 and we are uncertain when this will be ready, but the data can be... Read More
	ABCD T1 DCC-UK January 2018 Newsletter Rob Gregory - Ex-officio Chair, ABCD Committee Wednesday, 10th January 2018 The ABCD T1 DCC-UK January 2018 Newsletter is now available to read online.
	The 2017 Rowan Hillson Inpatient safety award Professor Mike Sampson (Chair, JBDS - IP) Tuesday, 19th December 2017 We are inviting colleagues to submit entries to this competition: Improving Inpatient Diabetes Safety: Best Digital Initiative. This JBDS – IP project is being led by our colleagues Umesh Dashora, Debbie Stanisstreet, and Erwin Castro. The... Read More
	All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Diabetes Anna Pokrajac, Committee Member, ABCD Tuesday, 5th December 2017 APPG for Diabetes met at the House of Parliament on 29/11/2017. To see video footage from the event click the images at the end of the article. The group was chaired by Rt Hon Keith Vaz. Speakers included: Patient Representative Gwynne Pickering... Read More
	The RCP Future Hospitals Programme Dinesh Nagi, ABCD Chair Friday, 1st December 2017 The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) Future Hospital Programme has launched its final report this week and this provides an opportunity for the RCP to look back at the considerable impact that the programme has had. The Future Hospital Commission... Read More
	Global prevalence of diabetes continues to rise Dinesh Nagi, ABCD Chair Thursday, 30th November 2017 To mark World Diabetes Day, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) published new estimates on the global prevalence of diabetes, indicating that 1 in 11 adults are currently living with diabetes, 10 million more than in 2015. The new estimate... Read More
	ABCD Autumn Meeting on Storify Andrew Macklin Friday, 17th November 2017 If you missed the ABCD Autumn Meeting, or want to review the day, the conference is now on Storify.
	Launch Of The ABCD Nationwide FreeStyle Libre Audit Emma Wilmot, Insulin Pump Network Chair Thursday, 16th November 2017 ABCD is pleased to announce the launch of the ABCD Nationwide FreeStyle Libre audit and would like to invite you to take part. This audit is ABCD’s first of a device rather than a pharmaceutical agent, but nevertheless the principles remain the... Read More
	JBDS - IP guidelines are being well used Dr Bob Ryder (Website Co-ordinator, Clinical Lead, ABCD Nationwide Audits) Wednesday, 8th November 2017 The joint British Diabetes Societies for inpatient care group (JBDS - IP) were interested to know the extent to which their guidelines have been downloaded from the ABCD website and so we investigated - click here to see the... Read More
	Improving care for people with Diabetes when in hospital Peter Winocour (Chairman ABCD, 2008-2011) Friday, 6th October 2017 RCP QI Hub – Supporting teams to improve care for people with diabetes when in hospital Would you like to:  … gain a better understanding of how to interpret the findings from your data?  ... learn how to facilitate changes and improvements... Read More
	NICE guideline publication - Type 2 diabetes: prevention in people at high risk Peter Winocour (Chairman ABCD, 2008-2011) Wednesday, 20th September 2017 This guideline covers how to identify adults at high risk of type 2 diabetes. It aims to remind practitioners that age is no barrier to being at high risk of, or developing, the condition. It also aims to help them provide those at high risk... Read More
	JBDS DKA condensed management charts - New Updated Version August 2017 Dr Parijat De, ABCD member Thursday, 24th August 2017 A New Updated Version of the condensed and abbreviated version of the original JBDS DKA management and monitoring chart has been piloted and successfully used in Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust. Please click on the link HERE for more... Read More
	IDF Europe prize in diabetes 2017 - Young researcher award Rob Gregory - Ex-officio Chair, ABCD Committee Tuesday, 15th August 2017 Rewarding Excellence, Innovation and Commitment in Diabetes Since 2012, The International Diabetes Federation European Region (IDF Europe) has recognised excellence, innovation and commitment in diabetes through the IDF Europe Prizes in... Read More
	The latest version of the Royal College of Physician’s (RCP) Dinesh Nagi, Chair ABCD Tuesday, 1st August 2017 The latest version of the Royal College of Physician’s (RCP) Medical Care which has been published and is live. Medical Care is a web based planning resource produced by RCP in partnership with UK’s medical specialty societies. The updated version... Read More
	ABCD-RA lipid guidelines Consultant Editor, BJD Tuesday, 4th July 2017 The ABCD-RA clinical practice guidelines on lipid management in adults with diabetes and nephropathy and/or CKD were published at the end of June: a summary of the guidance is in the British Journal of Diabetes and the full guidelines can be... Read More
	Launch of ABCD Nationwide IDegLira Audit Dr Ansu Basu (ABCD committee member) Wednesday, 5th April 2017 ABCD is pleased to announce the launch of the ABCD nationwide IDegLira (Xultophy) audit and would like to invite you to take part. The clinical trials of IDegLira seem to show in those uncontrolled on basal insulin (20-50units), IDegLira showed... Read More
	Launch of ABCD Empagliflozin Audit Dr Bob Ryder (Website Co-ordinator, Clinical Lead, ABCD Nationwide Audits) Wednesday, 22nd March 2017 ABCD is pleased to announce the launch of the ABCD nationwide empagliflozin audit and would like to invite all ABCD members to take part. With the launch of this audit we now have parallel audits of all three SGLT2 inhibitors allowing us in... Read More
	diabetologists.org.uk homepage replaced by abcd.care Dr Bob Ryder (Website Co-ordinator, Clinical Lead, ABCD Nationwide Audits) Monday, 20th March 2017 In line with the 20th anniversary this year of the founding of ABCD, as of today the http://www.diabetologists-abcd.org.uk homepage is now replaced by http://abcd.care. The archive of material on diabetologists-abcd.org.uk will continue to be... Read More