Endocrine Abstracts

Objectives: Many paediatric diabetes units in the UK have introduced 24 h telephone support to encourage self-management to reduce Emergency Department (ED) attendances and admissions. The UK national audit collects information on acute paediatric diabetic admissions; but there is no data available on ED attendances in this group. We undertook a retrospective audit of ED attendances as part of a baseline service evaluation of our newly introduced 24 h support service.<p cl...