Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: It was recognised there was a need to improve the current diabetes service provision at a District General Hospital in Yorkshire to meet the payment by results (PBR) best practice tariff. This tariff is based on recommendations by NICE, the Department for Health and the regional tertiary centre.Objective: The main change to be implemented by this district general hospital was the creation of a 24 h diabetes service staffed by trained profes...

Case History: We present a case of a 33-year-old woman who attended with heart failure whilst awaiting a surgical resection of phaeochromocytoma. She presented hours after an intravenous iron transfusion to treat her known iron-deficiency anaemia secondary to menorrhagia from massive uterine fibroids, for which she under the care of the gynaecology team. She was known to have a right-sided phaeochromocytoma, which was found incidentally on MRI in 2021, and was taking phenoxybe...