Endocrine Abstracts

Background: At diagnosis of diabetes is a critical time in the life course of diabetes. This a critical time for patient take on knowledge and using it (ref). Utilisation of this information is suboptimal due to logistical factors such as ward environment, time constraints of staff, psychological impact of the diagnosis. Current models of education are mainly didactic with limited impact in some patients.Aims: In collaboration with demontfort design unit...

With the increase in incidence of type 1 diabetes in children and young people (CYP) and the use of intensive insulin therapies, paediatric diabetes teams are under increasing pressure to support school staff with the day to day management of their pupils with diabetes. The CYPWMDN have developed a study day to provide basic diabetes awareness education to all school staff in the West Midlands (WM) region. This work also meets the training and support responsibilities of diabe...

Objectives: The Department of Health introduced a Best Practice Tariff (BPT) to finance Paediatric Diabetes Services in England, in response to variation in service provision and outcome. The tariff became mandatory in April 2013 and depends on achievement of 13 quality standards (QS). The West Midlands (WM) Region covers an area of 5020 square miles, where 2700 Children with Diabetes receive care from 15 Hospital Trusts who are members of the Regional Paediatric Diabetes Netw...

Objectives: Transition from paediatric (PC) to adult diabetes care (AC) is a vulnerable period for young people (YP). The West Midlands (WM) Regional Paediatric Diabetes Network conducted a region-wide study of Diabetes transition outcomes to identify 1. Areas of good practice, 2. Risk factors for poorer outcomes, 3. Regional objectives for services and 4. Provide baseline data against which future performance can be measured.Methods: Retrospective regio...