Webinar: Supporting people experiencing diabetes distress

This is the fourth of our 2021 ABCD webinar series which run on the first Thursday of each month.

People with diabetes often experience negative emotions including symptoms of depression and diabetes-related emotional distress. These can impact on diabetes care and quality of life and can lead to disengagement with the health services. This webinar, chaired by Professor Cathy Lloyd from The Open University, will discuss the importance of identifying these negative emotions and discuss ways that health care practitioners can support individuals experiencing diabetes distress.

This meeting has been approved by the Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom for 1 category 1 (external) credit (ref: 134925)

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On Demand Webinar: Supporting people experiencing diabetes distress

Speakers

Mr. Mark Davies

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Dr. Charles Fox

I qualified in medicine from Oxford University and St. Thomas' Hospital and trained in diabetes centres at Leicester, Poole, St Thomas', Exeter and Bristol. From 1980 - 2012 I was consultant physician with a special interest in diabetes at Northampton General Hospital. I now work as honorary lecturer for the Diabetes Masters in Leicester University.

My special interests in diabetes are education, communication and patient empowerment, with particular emphasis on diabetes in people at each end of the spectrum, that is young adults and older people with diabetes. Since 1986 I have organised an annual counselling and empowerment course for health care professionals working in diabetes.

I have worked with the R&D unit at Northampton General Hospital since it was founded in 1982 and have been Principal Investigator in a large number of studies, including UKPDS, DESMOND, 4T and FOURIER.

I have recently become interested in the problem of diabetes and dementia and the training of professionals who work in this area.

Co-author of the following books:
• “Diabetes at your Fingertips” - a question and answer handbook for people with diabetes and their carers. The 7th edition, written with Anne Kilvert, appeared in January 2011.
• “Diabetes in the Real World” with Tony Pickering, a family doctor in Northampton, - for health care professionals. Winner of the Asher Award in 1997.
• “Vital Diabetes” with Mary MacKinnon – for primary care teams, 4th edition 2007.
• “Type 2 Diabetes in adults of all ages” with Anne Kilvert. 2nd edition 2014. Selected in 2017 for the NHS Reading Well project.
Dr. Anne Kilvert

I am a diabetes consultant working with the Northamptonshire Community Diabetes Multidisciplinary Team, having previously been a consultant at Northampton General Hospital from 1995 until 2013.
I was a committee member of the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists for 9 years and, having co-authored the 2016 ABCD document ‘Standards of Care for management of Adults with Type 1 Diabetes’, I edited the 2020 update of this document.
I remain fully committed to supporting people with type 1 diabetes to self-manage and am a faculty member of the Knuston Hall Diabetes Counselling and Empowerment course, which teaches health care professionals how to empower people with diabetes.
Professor Cathy Lloyd

Dr Cathy Lloyd is Professor of Health Studies at The Open University, UK. She has an international reputation for research in the psychosocial field of diabetes. Her research includes work on diabetes and mental health taking an inclusive approach to her work and promoting positive and appropriate language for clinical encounters between people with diabetes, obesity and health care professionals. She teaches health and social care to undergraduates and supervises a number of doctoral students. Professor Lloyd leads the Community Interventions Network for Diabetes and Depression (CoIN-DD), a collaborative research group for academics, researchers and clinicians in Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and Tanzania. She is the Project Lead for a global study in 15 countries, the International Prevalence and Treatment of Diabetes and Depression (INTERPRET-DD) Study investigating the prevalence of recognised and unrecognised depression, diabetes-related emotional distress, and the country-specific care pathways that are initiated to treat co-morbid diabetes and depression.
Dr. Emma Wilmot

Consultant Diabetologist
Dr Emma Wilmot MB ChB BSc (hons) PhD FRCP
Associate Professor, University of Nottingham
Honorary Consultant Diabetologist, University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS FT
Founder, Diabetes Technology Network UK

Emma Wilmot is an Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham, Consultant Diabetologist in Derby and founder of the Diabetes Technology Network UK. She has over 100 publications and has been Principal or Chief Investigator on a range of diabetes studies. She was previously awarded the University of Leicester medal for excellent PhD performance “Type 2 diabetes in younger adults”.

As founder of the award-winning Association of British Clinical Diabetologists (ABCD) Diabetes Technology Network UK, she led the organisation to support improvements in access to diabetes technology in the UK, developing and delivering policies and educational resources for both health care professionals and people living with diabetes.

Emma is an ABCD committee member, deputy lead for the ABCD audit programme and ABCD academic sub-committee member. She is also a DAFNE structured education executive board member and expert advisor for the National Diabetes Audit programme. Emma is regularly invited to deliver national and international lectures.