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38th Meeting of the British Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes

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RCN CYP diabetes community session

ea0024s7 | RCN CYP diabetes community session | BSPED2010

IT barriers and potential solutions

Hindmarsh P

As medical science and technology have advanced health care delivery in diabetes has struggled to provide consistent high quality care. In the United Kingdom the National Service Framework (NSF) for Diabetes and guidelines from the National Institute for Clinical Excellence lay out the direction of care but do not performance manage care to achieve real improvements in health.There remains a shortfall between knowledge acquisition and safe and appropriat...

ea0024s8 | RCN CYP diabetes community session | BSPED2010

Regional networks and PBR

Hannigan M

There are 23 000 children with diabetes in England and managing diabetes in a child or young person can be a complex process. Historically care has been variable and the experience of the child or young person is not always positive. This situation has been compounded by a lack of a paediatric diabetes tariff and networks to support best practice.NHS Diabetes is supporting a number of new innovative projects to develop regional paediatric networks to sup...

ea0024s12 | RCN CYP diabetes community session | BSPED2010

A recipe for business success … and staff motivation

Head Steve

Ingredients:1 Cupful of Self Belief3 oz of Clarity4 KG of Building on your StrengthsA large portion of Understanding the impact you are having on your customersA dollop of Personalised servicePut this together and you will create more confidence, improve personal effetivenesss and build a stronger more personal bond with your colleagues and patients.<p class="abs...

ea0024s13 | RCN CYP diabetes community session | BSPED2010

Enabling sustained improvements on CSII: how to fine tune!

Pemberton John

This talk starts by focussing on how to set insulin to carbohydrate ratio and duration of insulin action and then how to test if they are set correctly. The talk then progresses into showing the mismatch between carbohydrate absorption and insulin action and how to use practical tips and pump tricks to reduce post-prandial glycaemia. The talk finishes with suggestions of when to use different bolus options such as dual wave (split) and extended (square)....