Endocrine Abstracts

Background/Introduction: The Best Practice Tariff was introduced in 2012 in England and Wales to provide adequate funding and ensure quality care for all children with Diabetes. The tariff criteria states that units must provide “24 hour access to advice and support” including “24 hour expert advice to other healthcare professionals”. The aims of this audit were to: evaluate the Nottingham Children’s Hospital out of hours paediatric diabetes service, d...

Introduction: The Best Practice Tariff states that units must provide a structured education programme which should be ‘tailored to the child’s needs, both at the time of initial diagnosis and ongoing updates’. Traditionally, there has been poor uptake of our education sessions with attendance rates of 20% (range 0–30). Therefore, an integrated education clinic was introduced which combined education within a multidisciplinary (MDT) clinic session for ongoi...