ABCD Announcements Archive

Dr. Dinesh Nagi
Lucozade Ribena Suntory (LRS) have announced the important changes that will happen to Ribena blackcurrant in February 2018. This follows the changes made to Lucozade Energy in 2017. LRS are…

Dr. peter winocour
The Royal College of Physicians’ QI Hub, in conjunction with Diabetes UK, will be running a rescheduled quality improvement collaborative for clinicians and their teams working in inpatient diabetes…

Professor Thozhukat Sathyapalan
Clinical staff using FreeStyle Libre should now start collecting data for the FreeStyle Libre nationwide audit. The online tool for data entry is currently being developed on N3 and we are uncertain…

Professor Alan Sinclair
Please be aware that the 2018 Clinical Excellence Awards round will open on Tuesday 13 February and will close at 5:00pm on Thursday 12 April.
ACCEA will accept applications for new national awards…

Professor Ketan Dhatariya
We are inviting colleagues to submit entries to this year’s competition which will be:
‘Best intervention during the COVID-19 pandemic that has maintained inpatient safety for people with diabetes’…
Professor Michael John Sampson
We are inviting colleagues to submit entries to this competition: Improving Inpatient Diabetes Safety: Best Digital Initiative. This JBDS – IP project is being led by our colleagues Umesh Dashora,…

Dr. Ana Pokrajac
APPG for Diabetes met at the House of Parliament on 29/11/2017. To see video footage from the event click the images at the end of the article. The group was chaired by Rt Hon Keith Vaz. Speakers…

Dr. Dinesh Nagi
The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) Future Hospital Programme has launched its final report this week and this provides an opportunity for the RCP to look back at the considerable impact that the…

Dr. Dinesh Nagi
To mark World Diabetes Day, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) published new estimates on the global prevalence of diabetes, indicating that 1 in 11 adults are currently living with diabetes…

Dr. Andrew Macklin
If you missed the ABCD Autumn Meeting, or want to review the day, the conference is now on Storify.

Dr. Emma Wilmot
ABCD is pleased to announce the launch of the ABCD Nationwide FreeStyle Libre audit and would like to invite you to take part. This audit is ABCD’s first of a device rather than a pharmaceutical…

Dr. Bob Ryder
The joint British Diabetes Societies for inpatient care group (JBDS - IP) were interested to know the extent to which their guidelines have been downloaded from the ABCD website and so we…