DUK call on NHS to do more for the mental health of people with diabetes

On 14 May, Diabetes UK launched a report on mental health and diabetes which shows that 7 out of 10 people have felt overwhelmed by the demands of living with diabetes and three quarters of people with diabetes can't get the emotional and mental health support they need. Diabetes UK are calling on the NHS to ensure that everyone with diabetes is asked about their psychological wellbeing as part of every diabetes appointment.

NHS England announces new online support for people living with type 2 diabetes

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: Obesity has become the “new smoking”

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.

ABCD nationwide FreeStyle Libre audit second  data deadline passes successfully – now the audit continues

Thank you

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.

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