TURNAROUND TIME – DIABETES FOCUS, POST PANDEMIC

Now moved to online

Event: 2pm - 5pm

Your patients with diabetes have suffered over the two years of the Pandemic. The number accessing diabetes reviews and monitoring has not picked up after the lockdowns, and their diabetic control has in many cases deteriorated over this time.

This PLI is an update in general management mainly of Type 2 diabetes and covers the emerging problem of young people diagnosed with this disease.

There are an estimated 31,000 people in the city living with diabetes. This PLI will consider how best to encourage access to reviews, as well as maximise opportunities to improve lifestyle management of this common disease.

This event will cover diabetes topics suitable for GPs, Practice Nurses and Health Care Assistants. The event will include presentations from local GPs, hospital specialists and pharmacists who will provide you with an update on:

• Issues from the National Diabetes Audit, including the impact of the pandemic on treatment targets, and local information regarding diabetes complications

• Preventative services, lifestyle interventions, and new initiatives around diabetes reversal

• Emerging good practice in primary care

• Treatment options including pharmacological options and when to make a specialist referral

• Diabetes in pregnancy and pre-conceptual care

• Caring for young people with Type 2

• Foot care