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 programme has had. The Future Hospital Commission was a rare thing in medicine – a report that was radical, engaging and popular, full of new ideas and solutions to the common problems that beset the NHS.  

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, 10 million more than in 2015.The new estimate is included in the eighth edition of the IDF Diabetes Atlas, other data included: diabetes prevalence is set to rise to almost 700 million by 2045; one in two adults with diabetes remain undiagnosed; and 12 percent of global health expenditure is spent on diabetes. For more information click here.

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

• Read more about Launch Of The ABCD Nationwide FreeStyle Libre Audit

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 investigated. Click here to see the information for 2017.  It can be seen the the guidelines are indeed being well used, in particular the diabetic ketoacidosis, HHS and hypoglycaemia guidelines.

Please see below for links to documents from the ABCD Type 1 Diabetes Clinical Collaborative T1DCC-UK and ABCD aimed at supporting you to to get Freestyle Libre onto the formulary in your locality.

Supporting covering letter - click HERE

Information to help a formulary case - click HERE

Animas has discontinued the sale of all Animas® Vibe® and OneTouch Ping® insulin pumps in the U.S. and Canada, effective immediately.
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RCP QI Hub – Supporting teams to improve care for people with diabetes when in hospital

Would you like to:
 … gain a better understanding of how to interpret the findings from your data?
 ... learn how to facilitate changes and improvements in patient care?
 … become a quality improvement champion for inpatient diabetes?

This guideline covers how to identify adults at high risk of type 2 diabetes. It aims to remind practitioners that age is no barrier to being at high risk of, or developing, the condition. It also aims to help them provide those at high risk with an effective and appropriate intensive lifestyle-change programme to prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes. For more information click HERE.