Endocrine Abstracts

In 2014 Torbay Hospital was a national outlier for diabetes control in the paediatric population. At this time a transformative quality improvement project which tracked the patient’s journey through the service resulted in the introduction of carbohydrate counting from diagnosis. Whilst other hospitals had already adopted this approach the Torbay team introduced a system of care where the patient/parent lead the process of calculating carbohydrates and insulin doses from...