Endocrine Abstracts

The paediatric diabetes best practice tariff (BPT) was introduced in 2012, with the aim of standardising and improving paediatric diabetes services across England. In the first year, only about 50% of units were claiming the full tariff but this had substantially improved for 2013–2014. It is probably too early to see if there has been a positive impact on outcomes but data from the East Midlands will be presented to look at this in more detail. From 2014, the BPT will al...

Obesity is a growing epidemic and a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Maintaining a healthy weight is of even greater importance for diabetics, due to the increased risk of micro-vascular and macro-vascular complications.There is suggestion that type 1 diabetic children are more likely to be obese than their peers (e.g. ‘Type 1 diabetes children often overweight’, www.diabetes.co.uk/news). In o...