Endocrine Abstracts

Background: At the beginning of the first Covid 19 lockdown the team realized the need for an innovative way of having contact with young people. Virtual sessions could do this? We also needed to meet young person’s wishes.Objectives: -For the activity to be fun. -Improve carbohydrate counting, knowledge, expertise and confidence -Give young people skills to be independent with their carb counting skills...

Introduction: The aim of having an away day was to enhance relationships across three sites by improving the understanding of each other’s roles, their contributions and ways to provide mutual support. Also the intention was to establish parity through co-designing common practices of working effectively and developing quality improvement projects.Method: Staff members from three Paediatric Diabetes Teams within the same trust were invited to attend...

Introduction: For the last 2 years we have been giving regular diabetes education sessions in conjunction with our hospital school, based around maths skills. These went well, but we wanted to develop these further, making them more patient centred. We gained a grant from the Diabetes Research and Wellness Foundation and designed a 4 day programme with ‘The Puppet Project’ and ‘WAC arts’. This was done very much in collabaration with our hospital school who...

Introduction: Pregnancy under the age of 19 is considered high-risk1; and a pregnancy with diabetes at this age further increases that risk2,3. With the correct advice and counselling, these risks can be greatly reduced. Here we describe a strategy to raise awareness by addressing this as part of regular clinic visits.Method: Prior knowledge of potential complications of pregnancy was assessed as part of a clinical consultation. Evi...

Introduction: Hospital schools can provide structure and learning for young people throughout a planned admission. With guidance, teachers can be a vital resource for assessing the numeracy and literacy skills essential in the management of diabetes. They can also provide a source of valuable pastoral and organisational expertise useful to the diabetes multidisciplinary team (MDT).Method: School teaching, pastoral and planning skills can be used to help ...

Background and aims: Estimating puberty using Tanner stages is usually done unconfidently by general paediatricians. Self-assessment methods are not reliable. As assessment of growth on the new UK growth charts necessitates establishing pubertal status, we have designed and evaluated a simpler non-invasive approach.Methods: The new system has three Phases– Pre-Puberty (Tanner stage 1), In-Puberty (stages 2/3) and Completing-Puberty (stages 4/5)....