Lucozade Ribena Suntory (LRS) have announced the important changes that will happen to Ribena blackcurrant in February 2018. This follows the changes made to Lucozade Energy in 2017.  LRS are reducing the sugar content of Ribena blackcurrant by 55% in both the squash and ready to drink bottles.  These changes may impact those with diabetes that use Ribena blackcurrant to manage their low blood sugar levels, during an episode of hypoglycaemia.

The Royal College of Physicians’ QI Hub, in conjunction with Diabetes UK, will be running a rescheduled quality improvement collaborative for clinicians and their teams working in inpatient diabetes from March—October 2018. For further information about this click here 

Clinical staff using FreeStyle Libre should now start collecting data for the FreeStyle Libre nationwide audit. The online tool for data entry is currently being developed on N3 and we are uncertain when this will be ready, but the data can be collected at once on paper forms that you can order and will be sent to you if you fill in submit this form HERE .

Please be aware that the 2018 Clinical Excellence Awards round will open on Tuesday 13 February and will close at 5:00pm on Thursday 12 April.

ACCEA will accept applications for new national awards and from those due to renew their award in 2018.

Consultants will need to put in a renewal application if:

The ABCD T1 DCC-UK January 2018 Newsletter is now available to read online.

We are inviting colleagues to submit entries to this competition: Improving Inpatient Diabetes Safety: Best Digital Initiative. This JBDS – IP project is being led by our colleagues 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 awarded the prestigious annual Rowan Hillson Inpatient Safety Award at the ABCD Spring meeting.  The outcome of this initiative will be published on the ABCD, Diabetes UK and DISN UK Group websites

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.