Dr. Peter Hammond
Harrogate District Hospital, Harrogate
Peter Hammond has been a consultant physician specialising in diabetes and endocrinology in Harrogate since 1996. He has established Harrogate as a nationally recognised centre for diabetes technologies, with a particular interest in using these technologies to improve the outcomes for diabetes in pregnancy. He has been expert adviser to both NICE appraisals of insulin pump therapy. He was NHS Diabetes Clinical Lead for Insulin Pump therapy, a member of the NICE Type 1 Diabetes in Adults guideline development group and co-author of the DTN guidelines on insulin pump therapy and use of diabetes technology in pregnancy. He has been involved in research into the role of insulin pump therapy and related technologies, notably the Five Nations Study, REPOSE, SMILE, ADAPT and the NHS England Closed Loop Pilot.
