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JBDS-IP Inpatient Diabetes Conference 2026 - Programme

Timings Topic Speaker
0830 - 0930 Registration and refreshments  
0930 JBDS-IP: a year in review and looking ahead Dr Omar Mustafa, Chair, JBDS-IP 
Consultant diabetologist, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London
  Session 1 Chair: Dr Omar Mustafa
  Inpatient diabetes: GIRFT Professor Gerry Rayman, Consultant Diabetologist, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, Ipswich and GIRFT Diabetes Co-Lead NHSE 
 
  Inpatient diabetes care: safety, accreditation, quality, new national audit Dr Daniel Flanagan, Consultant in diabetes and endocrinology, 
University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, Plymouth 
Clinical Lead, Diabetes Care Accreditation programme and National Diabetes Audit (Inpatient Care)
 
  Update on new JBDS-IP guidelines
  The use of variable rate intravenous insulin infusion (VRIII) in medical inpatients Dr Stella George, Consultant in diabetes and endocrinology, East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, Stevenage
 
  Using technology to support diabetes care in hospital Dr Pari Avari, Consultant Diabetologist, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London
 
  Refreshments
 

Session 2: A year in inpatient diabetes
Chair Professor Ketan Dhatariya, Chair ABCD

Updates on key clinical, research, and innovations developments in inpatient diabetes from speakers from the UK and internationally. 
 

  Practical approaches for inpatient continuous glucose monitoring, insulin pumps, and automated insulin delivery systems: International position statement Dr Mikkel T. Olsen, Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, Herlev, Denmark
 
  PREM in inpatient diabetes

Dr Olga Kozlowska, Oxford Institute of Applied Health Research, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford

Dr Rustam Rea, Consultant diabetologist, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford
 

  Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) report: Insulin: supporting safe administration in inpatient settings Mr Craig Hadley, Senior Safety Investigator, Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB)
  Optimising inpatient management of steroid induced hyperglycaemia: Insulin dosing strategies and diabetes technology  Dr Angela Chen, Consultant endocrinologist, Department of Endocrinology, Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park, Australia.
  Feasibility of using algorithm-guided basal–bolus therapy in corticosteroid-treated inpatients using routine clinical data Ms Petra Martina Baumann, Medical University of Graz
 

Session 3: Workshops

•    All attendees rotate through all 3 workshops.
•    In the workshops, we aim to encourage a case based approach with interaction from the audience to achieve a set of learning outcomes. Focus on a ‘how to approach’
 

  Lunch, posters and exhibition
 

Workshop 1: Optimising inpatient diabetes care and safe discharge

Facilitators:
Esther Walden, Diabetes specialist nurse, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and Senior Clinical Adviser at Diabetes UK

Dr Stella George, Consultant Diabetes and Endocrinology, East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, Stevenage 
 

 

Workshop 2: use of diabetes technology in hospital

Facilitators:
Alison Cox, Diabetes specialist nurse, University College London Hospitals, London

Dr Pari Avari
Consultant Diabetologist, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London
 

  Refreshments
 

Workshop 3: Perioperative care of people with diabetes undergoing surgery

Facilitators: 
Kim Howson, Diabetes Perioperative Specialist Nurse, James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Great Yarmouth

Dr Nicholas Levy, Consultant anaesthetist, West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
 

 

Closing plenary:
Unanswered questions in inpatient diabetes: Future directions for care and research

•    Key evidence gaps and unresolved challenges in inpatient diabetes management
•    Emerging and future research priorities
•    Translating innovation into sustainable improvements in hospital care
•    Opportunities for international collaboration and learning
 

Professor Guillermo E. Umpierrez, Professor of Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
 
1620 Closing remarks and awards