The World Diabetic Foot Day will be held at the EWMA 2020 Conference in London on 15 May 2020.

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This Position Statement on the management of frailty in diabetes mellitus represents a timely initiative by the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists (ABCD) to address the important issue of frailty and its association with diabetes.

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ALAN SINCLAIR,¹ ALISON GALLAGHER²

¹ Foundation for Diabetes Research in Older People (FDROP), Diabetes Frail Ltd, Luton, UK
² University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK

This Position Statement on the management of frailty in diabetes mellitus represents a timely initiative by the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists (ABCD) to address the important issue of frailty and its association with diabetes.

This JBDS – IP project is being led by Umesh Dashora, Debbie Stanisstreet, and Erwin Castro. The submissions will be judged against predetermined criteria, by an independent panel chaired by Rowan Hillson, and the winner will be presented with the prestigious annual Rowan Hillson Inpatient Safety Award at the ABCD Spring meeting 2020.  The outcome of this initiative will be published on the ABCD, Diabetes UK and DISN UK Group websites to share excellent practice. 

Today we have launched our new, annual census of consultants in diabetes and endocrinology. This is being done on behalf of ABCD; SfE; Diabetes UK and The Royal College of Physicians London who are also project managing this census.

The data from this census is used to plan the future workforce of our specialty, identify current gaps, help colleagues in making justification of expanding their departments, show how hard we work outside our specialty both in General Internal Medicine but also related activities such as education and management.

Following the completion of the terms of office of a number of ABCD committee members and officers, we are now seeking nominations and inviting applications from members to stand for election for the following positions.