ABCD Announcements Archive

Professor Pratik Choudhary
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…

Dr. Dipesh Patel
Released on 20th January 2021 by London NHS, London COVID-19 dexamethasone and hyperglycaemia: diabetes de-escalation guidance is now available for download.

Dr. Dipesh Patel
The statement from PCDS, supported by ABCD and Diabetes UK contains useful updated information to share with community colleagues and patients.

Professor Pratik Choudhary
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…

Dr. Dipesh Patel
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…

Dr. Susannah Rowles
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…

Dr. Bob Ryder
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…

Dr. Dinesh Nagi
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…

Dr. Dipesh Patel
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…

Professor Pratik Choudhary
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…

Dr. Sufyan Hussain
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…

Dr. Emma Wilmot
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…