Endocrine Abstracts

An MDT approach to facilitating a workable transition between paediatric and adult services for young people with T1 and T2 diabetes. Management of young people with T2 diabetes is an emerging field that provides new challenges to the healthcare team in enabling young people to live with a lifelong condition that may also be affecting the wider family. Our service is delivered across two sites looking after young people with diabetes aged between 14–19 years in paediatric...

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...