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A new version of the guidance for treating adults with diabetic ketoacidosis has been published.

Included in the updated management advice is a single page pathway and additional information to include 16 to 18-years-olds if they are looked after by adult diabetes teams.

Healthcare professionals and people with type 2 diabetes are being urged to access a newly-translated education app which is available free of charge until August 31st. The X-PERT Diabetes Digital App was launched in April last year and includes all six sessions from the award-winning X-PERT Health group education, a programme which has been delivered for more than 20 years. X-PERT Health is a charity providing education to help prevent, manage or even reverse type 2 diabetes and other long-term conditions. Following the launch of its digital platform, the charity wanted to go one step further to ensure it reached new communities, particularly as some have a higher prevalence of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes and the associated health complications.

‘Diabetes heroes’ who have improved the quality of life for people living with the condition will be recognised at the upcoming Quality in Care diabetes awards.

Nominations are being sought from the diabetes community ahead of the annual awards ceremony on Thursday, October 14.

Diabetes distress reduces among people with type 1 diabetes who use the FreeStyle Libre system, new research has found.

Using data from the nationwide audit of FreeStyle Libre – conducted by the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists (ABCD) – a team led by Dr Harshal Deshmukh, from Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, compared prevalence of diabetes-related distress (DRD) before using flash glucose monitoring, and after. 

This month's guest blog is from Sarah Gregory, Clinical Lead of the Community Diabetes Team at Medway Community Healthcare. Sarah was one of the lead authors – along with James Ridgeway, Education and Research Associate at University Hospitals, Leicester – of a review into care delivered in the community to people with diabetes. The report, Community Caseload Review (Housebound Diabetes), led to the development of a 3-tier model of training for community nurses, which is being piloted across Medway Community Healthcare in Kent.

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The original Diabetes 10 Point Training Programme for adult inpatient staff was developed in 2014 by Diabetes Nurse Consultant Ruth Miller in response to concerns about inpatient safety and inadequate access to basic diabetes training for frontline staff.  

The second part of DPC’s popular Summer Forum gets underway this month, with the latest webinar series focussing on ‘Rebooting Diabetes Care’.

Access all the latest webinars from DPC with its new Digital Hub which offers free, on-demand diabetes education for healthcare professionals.

As one of the groups most affected by COVID-19, people living with diabetes have suffered from reduced access to the support and care that they need to live with their condition on a daily basis, which makes this year’s DPC even more important and relevant for the healthcare professionals responsible for caring for them.

To boost usage across Britain, an insulin pump pathway has been created.

The Diabetes Technology Network (DTN) put the guidance together which contains the definition of high-quality care, a pump pathway, key skills and a flow chart for starting CSII remotely.