Endocrine Abstracts

Background: The Freestyle Flash glucose monitoring (Flash GM) is a new technology suitable for children and adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM). Clinical accuracy, safety and user acceptability of the Flash GM has been demonstrated in a recent study. In 2017 the UK Association of children’s diabetes clinicians (ACDC) launched national guidelines for training healthcare professionals in delivering Flash GM to children with T1DM.Objective...

Introduction: To maintain an average HbA1c of less than 48 mmol/mol requires good diabetes control throughout the year. School holidays take on average 13 weeks (25%) of the year in the UK, therefore good control in holidays as well as term-time is paramount. Little work has been done in this area but it has been suggested diabetes control may be worse during holidays. This study aimed to retrospectively compare diabetes control between term time and the school holidays.<p...

Introduction: Ongoing structured education for children and young people with type 1 diabetes and their families is considered essential by ISPAD (2014) and NICE (2015), because there is a lot of education and skills that need to be reinforced.In 2016 the majority of the self-management education was provided at our trust by diabetes self-management education (DSME) sessions, which are two hour sessions designed to improve self-management. This format of...