Endocrine Abstracts

It is a real honour to be named Outstanding Clinical Practitioner by the Society for Endocrinology, especially as I am sharing this with my award twin, Professor Kristien Boelaert. For my presentation I will talk about aspects described in the nomination and discuss how improving patient care is at the heart of all we do. This can be achieved at an individual patient level, organisational level, and a national systems level. I will describe work around the NHS steroid emergency card and National Patient Safety Alert, which illustrates how by working in partnerships different organisations, namely Society for Endocrinology, Royal College of Physicians, NHS Patient Safety team, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, British Thoracic society. Working with patient support groups such as the Addison’s Disease Self Help Group, Pituitary Foundation and Living with CAH teams, we can devise and disseminate patient safety work. I will also reference 2 patients with phaeochromocytoma who kindly gave up time to write comments to highlight the need to individualise patient care, especially during a pandemic. I’d then like to link this to thinking about how we remodel our services now the world has changed, as we live and work through a pandemic. Alternatively I may just talk about cricket. Whatever my talk compromises of I hope we meet for a face to face meeting and look forward to seeing everyone.