The Joint British Diabetes Societies (JBDS) for Inpatient Care group was created in 2008 to ‘deliver a set of diabetes inpatient guidelines and proposed standards of care within secondary care organisations’, with the overall aim of improving inpatient diabetes care through the development and use of high quality evidence based guidelines, and through better inpatient care pathways.

We are pleased to share our proposed new aims and objectives for ABCD.

The Centre for Perioperative Care (CPOC) is a cross-organisational, multidisciplinary collaborative between patients and the public, Royal Colleges and similar organisations. CPOC was established in 2019 to facilitate and promote the delivery of high-quality perioperative care; the integrated multidisciplinary management of patients from the moment surgery is contemplated through to full recovery.

The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) has published a briefing on putting people at the heart of diabetes services.

Diabetes costs the NHS around £10 billion a year. It is a national priority and a focus of the NHS Long Term Plan. There are guidelines on diabetes management and NHS policy highlights the need for more person-centred care. This includes supporting people, and giving them the tools they need, to manage their own health. However, there are large inequalities in access to services across the country. 

A survey to assess the workplace well-being for trainee registrars in the Diabetes and Endocrinology specialty has recently been launched.

The survey has been conducted once before, in 2018, in this specialty. The survey results, published in Primary Care Diabetes, found that 50% of Diabetes and Endocrine specialist registrars have experienced burnout*.