Endocrine Abstracts

Paediatric diabetes ranks amongst the commonest chronic diseases in childhood and affects about 23 000 children under 17 years. Acute medical management at manifestation is well established and successfully conducted in the vast majority of cases. The chronic long-term treatment is challenging and involves self-managed, regular subcutaneous insulin administration, together with diet, exercise and lifestyle support to avoid short and long-term complications. Glycaemic control i...

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This short presentation will consider the fact that many adults underestimate children’s ability to understand many things – this works in two ways, sometimes children understand more, and sometimes less than we might imagine – and by doing so may cause upset and misunderstanding. In any case we will see that all of us, including children, try to make sense of our surroundings, of new information, and of what happens to us, and children, in particular, need a ce...

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Diabetes self-management education (DSME) in the UK is less well defined in paediatrics than in adults. Moreover, there is no nationally validated programme of education for paediatrics consequently the 70% of services that offer structured education have developed them locally. As we move towards a new system of payment for paediatric diabetes, the Best Practice Tariff, services will need to demonstrate that they supply a structured education programme from diagnosis and thro...