Endocrine Abstracts

The SKIP Course – A STRUCTURED KNOWLEDGE and INFORMATION PROGRAMME – An education programme specifically designed to meet the educational needs of the young person with Type 1 Diabetes and their family. The structured curriculum of the ‘SKIP’ course enables those attending develop their knowledge and skills and improve day to day self-care of their diabetes, in an interactive process with the diabetes team and other families, to achieve good glycaemic contr...

Intensive insulin regimes are widely accepted as the best way to control diabetes in children as well as adults, and most centres in the UK offer support for intensive regimes. The emphasis on intensification of diabetes management in children and young people has implications for schools because children need injections, or to use an insulin pump, during the school day, which may not have been required in bi-daily injection regimes.Diabetes teams need t...