Endocrine Abstracts

Paediatric diabetes is essentially a hospital based service with opportunities for care delivery in settings such as the home, school and community based organisations. The delivery of care (as defined in part by HbA1c) varies throughout the UK. Factors influencing this include varying staffing levels and skill sets along with social deprivation and ethnic diversity and attaining a standard of equitable care is a major challenge. The fundamental issue is not whether care is de...

Paediatric diabetes is a common, chronic, largely self managed disease. The problems children and young people deal with are complex and wide-ranging in scope. The key to success lies in close, personalised support and education for families facing this condition by an MDT who knows them well and is familiar with the local environment.I will put the case that this is best delivered in the UK by properly trained, resourced and accountable local teams, sup...