Diabetes UK

Diabetes UK - Shared Practice Resource

Shared Practice resource that shares examples of diabetes services and other useful information such as care recommendations, Diabetes UK Position Statements, criteria and useful links - available at: www.diabetes.org.uk/sharedpractice

Diabetes Update: Diabetes UK, Spring 2008

Contents
Quality and reform
Why integrated care is vital for people with diabetes

Hypoglycaemia Fact sheet 48
Education about how to treat and avoid hypoglycaemia - for people with diabetes and clinical staff

News

PM call for national diabetes screening

DSNs could save the NHS £100 million

Type 2 - related heart attack doubled

Risky business

Type 1 starter pack

£40m to tackle obesity epidemic in Scotland

Is Alzheimer's Type 3 diabetes?

Features
Piece by piece
Part one in our four-part series on care planning and diabetes

Clinical practice
Targeting young people
Tailoring a diabetes service to the needs of young people

Research Focus

Trends, grants and deadlines for diabetes researchers

Health talk
Risky business
Advising people with diabetes about risk

Diabetes Update is free to healthcare professional members of Diabetes UK, visit the Professionals section of their website for more information. Visually impaired members can receive the magazine in large print format. Simply email: update@diabetes.org.uk.

Conferences

See the Diabetes UK website for details: http://www.diabetes.org.uk/Professionals/Conferences_and_events/All_conferences/

Diabetes and Weight Management

Diabetes UK's weight management information pack is aimed at practice nurses and GPs, and seeks to provide the tools to help tackle the major problem of weight management for people with diabetes. The information is free and can be downloaded from their website www.diabetes.org.uk

Diabetes information now available online in six ethnic languages.

Diabetes UK has launched new website pages giving diabetes information in Hindi,Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Gujarati and Cantonese. The pages, together with a new series of free information sheets, cover:
What is diabetes?; Managing diabetes; Healthy lifestyle, fasting and diabetes; How Diabetes UK can help you;
Diabetic complications and Hypoglycaemia.

New Resources (order from Diabetes UK on 0800 585088)

Diabetes awareness toolkit: If you are thinking of setting up a diabetes awareness day aimed at black and minority ethnic communities, see the new toolkit available via Diabetes UK website: http://www.diabetes.org.uk/health/bmetoolkit.htm

The Risk Factor flyers are now available in 5 Asian languages and Cantonese. They can be downloaded from the internet or from the distribution centre.

Keeping Fit- code 8045/0202/a or download from diabetes UK.

A comprehensive list of both multi-professional & specialist courses are available from the Diabetes UK website or
by phoning Kate Colcutt on 020 7462 2655.

PCDUK Regional Meetings

For details contact Richard Warren at Diabetes UK on tel: 020 7462 2600 or fax: 020 7462 2626

Living with diabetes days

Contact: Ruth Taylor, Conference organiser at Diabetes UK Tel 020 7462 2635 or e-mail ruth.taylor@diabetes.org.uk