Endocrine Abstracts

Successful management of diabetes requires an empowered patient/family that is well-educated about their condition and feels confident to self-manage with the support of their medical team. The linchpin to assessment and effective change is the quality of available information. Most patients/families have no way of pulling all their diabetes information together efficiently, and consequently often feel helpless and do not take charge of making their therapy adjustments. Diasen...

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An MDT approach to facilitating a workable transition between paediatric and adult services for young people with T1 and T2 diabetes. Management of young people with T2 diabetes is an emerging field that provides new challenges to the healthcare team in enabling young people to live with a lifelong condition that may also be affecting the wider family. Our service is delivered across two sites looking after young people with diabetes aged between 14–19 years in paediatric...