Carbs and Cals Book - A New Visual Carbohydrate Counting Book (now available to pre-order)

Chris Cheyette (Dietitian) and Yello Balolia (Photographic Artist) have produced a comprehensive visual guide to carbohydrate and calorie counting. The book will be released in March 2010 and contains over 1200 food and drink pictures with carbohydrate and calorie values. Go to www.carbsandcals.com to pre-order your copy for £12.99 (free UK postage). Teaching packs, flash cards and posters will be available soon. Discounts for larger orders are also available.

Front of Pack Nutrition Labelling

DMEG recently sent a response to the Food Standards Agency regarding their consultation on front of pack nutrition labelling. Click here to view

The Diabetes Education Network Think Tank report on “Structuring diabetes services to support self-management”

The Diabetes Education Network have recently produced a report on structuring services to support self management. This work came out of a think tank meeting of professionals and people with diabetes back in June 2009. Click here to view 

Department of Health AHP Prescribing Scoping Project report July 2009.  Click here to view

The Department of Health has recently produced this report: Allied health professions prescribing and medicines supply mechanisms scoping project report. The objective was to look at what evidence exists to help extend the prescibing and medicines supply for AHPs. See the full doccument for details.

NICE (2009) recently guidelines for Type 2 Diabetes – Newer Agents.  Click here to view

DMEG are now working effectively with NICE ( via the BDA) and our comments are being well received and  considered. For example, we asked NICE to reconsider the comment in the newer agents draft guidance that suggested exanetide should be stopped if there was not 5% weight loss within 6 months. We felt this was unreasonable since exanetide is not primarily a weight reducing drug and the studies quoted suggest only a 3% weight loss is likely. As a result of ours ( and others comments ) this has been changed in the final document.

Carbohydrate Resource - Food Pictures

Maria Leveridge, on behalf of DMEG, has been able to obtain a Value Added Licence for the publication of material taken from Nelson et al Food Portion Sizes: A photographic atlas MAFF 1997. See the Resources page in the Members section to download a copy of the Carbohydate Food Pictures resource booklet. The resource is available in both grams and CP's.

Guidance for Progression of Professional Development in Diabetes

The aim of the tool is to facilitate Dietitians working in diabetes care, to identify their expertise and learning needs, in order to move to a higher level of competency in their chosen area of speciality. The document has been ratified by the BDA and is available in the resources section of the DMEG website and is also available on the BDA website.

Insulin Adjustment Protocols

Examples of insulin adjustment protocols are available to view on the "Resources" page in the "Member's only" section of this website. These protocols are for reference only and are kindly shared by the authors. DMEG does not endorse or promote replication of these for local use, nor have these been passed as national outlines by the BDA.