Endocrine Abstracts

In Ireland, we are devolving management of diabetes to primary care. Recent studies highlight the importance of early glycemic (metabolic memory) & multifactorial control. Our hospital‘new’patient waiting lists average 18 months and for ‘best practice’, this is “time lost”. We established a pilot program for a rapid assessment to reduce waiting times and ensure specialist input. This is a retrospective review of our 50 patients thus far. 30% w...