NHS advice will be offered online to people with type 2 diabetes to help them manage their condition via a first of its kind service. The new offer, will mean people with type 2 diabetes have evidence-based information and support available at the touch of a button, via an online portal, giving them convenient and quick help to deal with the physical and mental challenges of diabetes.

Eleven sites will now pilot the new service later this year, with a national roll out from 2020.

Simon Stevens, Chief Executive, NHS England, has warned, that “obesity is the new smoking”, after calculations showed that cancers caused by obesity will increase by 62 per cent by the end of the next decade. Some 360,000 people in Britain will get cancer because of their weight in the next ten years, the projections estimate, meaning that the UK is fast catching up with the US.

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We wish to thank all those who worked so hard to submit data in time for our second deadline, and we are pleased to inform you that we had 296 users from 156 sites in 114 centres contributing data on 6644 patients.  5589 patients had a least one baseline HbA1c and 2043 patients had at least one follow up HbA1c. Analyses are now being undertaken for the two presentations at the at the American Diabetes Association Annual Professional Conference in June and we will then be considering the first paper to be written.

The Association of British Clinical Diabetologists (ABCD) has updated our position statement on the use of sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors in type 1 diabetes.

Umesh Dashora, Dipesh C Patel, Robert Gregory, Peter Winocour, Ketan Dhatariya, Dinesh Nagi

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Presentation by Dr Jackie Elliott, Sheffield​

Part of the DTN-UK Flash Glucose Monitoring Education Programme

Presentation by Nicola Taylor, Dietitian, Derby​

Part of the DTN-UK Flash Glucose Monitoring Education Programme

Presentation by Dr Emma Wilmot, Derby​

Part of the DTN-UK Flash Glucose Monitoring Education Programme

Presentation by Dr Iain Cranston

Part of the DTN-UK Flash Glucose Monitoring Education Programme

I am pleased to share the entries which won Rowan Hillson Inpatient Safety Award this year.

You might find some of the ideas in these entries quite easy and useful to replicate in your institution.

Please e mail me at u.dashora@nhs.net if you need any further information.