APPG for Diabetes met at the House of Parliament on 29/11/2017. To see video footage from the event click the images at the end of the article. The group was chaired by Rt Hon Keith Vaz. Speakers included:

Patient Representative Gwynne Pickering, Debbie Hicks and Jill Hill from TREND-UK, Dr Helen Atkins, University Hospitals of Leicester, Dr Elizabeth Martin, Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust, Dr Ana Pokrajac Diabetes Consultant Diabetes UK National Clinical Champion.

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) Future Hospital Programme has launched its final report this week and this provides an opportunity for the RCP to look back at the considerable impact that the programme has had. The Future Hospital Commission was a rare thing in medicine – a report that was radical, engaging and popular, full of new ideas and solutions to the common problems that beset the NHS.  

To mark World Diabetes Day, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) published new estimates on the global prevalence of diabetes, indicating that 1 in 11 adults are currently living with diabetes, 10 million more than in 2015.The new estimate is included in the eighth edition of the IDF Diabetes Atlas, other data included: diabetes prevalence is set to rise to almost 700 million by 2045; one in two adults with diabetes remain undiagnosed; and 12 percent of global health expenditure is spent on diabetes. For more information click here.

If you missed the ABCD Autumn Meeting, or want to review the day, the conference is now on Storify.

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The joint British Diabetes Societies for inpatient care group (JBDS - IP) were interested to know the extent to which their guidelines have been downloaded from the ABCD website and so we investigated. Click here to see the information for 2017.  It can be seen the the guidelines are indeed being well used, in particular the diabetic ketoacidosis, HHS and hypoglycaemia guidelines.