Endocrine Abstracts

Patients with thyroid dysfunction require frequent clinic follow-up, but are often young and have difficulty taking time off work or college, leading to non-attendance and disruption to their treatment. The did not attend (DNA) rate of our endocrine clinic was 21.3%, of whom 44% comprised patients with thyroid disorders. Skype has already been used very successfully for follow-up in the Newham diabetes clinics for our young and ethnically diverse population. We wished to explo...