Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Ongoing structured education for children and young people with type 1 diabetes and their families is considered essential by ISPAD (2014) and NICE (2015), because there is a lot of education and skills that need to be reinforced.In 2016 the majority of the self-management education was provided at our trust by diabetes self-management education (DSME) sessions, which are two hour sessions designed to improve self-management. This format of...

Objectives: The Diabetes Team at Birmingham Children’s Hospital modified the advanced bolus algorithm suggested by Bell (2015), to develop the KISS (Keep it Simple and Safe). KISS involves adding 25% extra insulin to meals identified as very high fat and protein, and spreading the insulin by a split bolus, 50% now and 50% over 2.5 hours. KISS also has an adjustment tool allowing extra insulin to be added and the split modified from monitoring. KISS is intended to be a sim...

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...