Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The prevalence of diabetes continues to rise worldwide placing an increasing burden on the national health service. In 2012 a national Best Practice Tariff (BPT) was introduced in the UK and a National Peer Review Quality Assurance Programme was developed to drive improvements in diabetes care for children and young people. Our national audit from 2010 to 2018 aims to explore trends in paediatric diabetic care within the North West Diabetes Network and assess the...

Children with congenital hypothyroidism (CH) due to anatomical defects (AD) have different thyroid hormone levels at presentation from those with dyshormonogenesis (DH). We set out to explore these differences at initial presentation and at follow up. We also compared calcitonin levels and growth in these subjects with healthy controls. Data for the CH children were collected from hospital notes for birth weight, gestation, sex, initial laboratory thyroid function, starting do...