Endocrine Abstracts

NIHR funded a 5 year Programme Grant for Applied Research to explore how to promote the subjective wellbeing and health of young people with long term conditions by generating evidence to enable NHS Commissioners and Trusts to facilitate the successful transition of young people from child to adult health care, thereby improving health and social outcomes. It completed in September 2017. I shall cover some background to transition, then summarise the purpose of the Programme a...

Introduction: Transition from child to adult healthcare is a period of vulnerability for young people with diabetes. We hypothesised that patient satisfaction with services and patient wellbeing would be positively associated with a satisfactory clinical progression.Methods: We included data from 150 young people recruited in 2012 to a longitudinal study of transition (http:research.ncl.ac.uk/transition). Young people’s satisfaction with services (&...