Experts debate the future of diabetes care
Posted on 3 November 2009
Doctors, practice and community nursing staff from across Yorkshire will discuss how people with diabetes and associated long term conditions can be better supported by GP practices, community nurses and others in the primary care sector.
In the UK, one person is diagnosed with diabetes every three minutes and three people die every hour from diabetes related complications
Anne Phillips
The New Clinical Solutions in Diabetes Care conference is the result of a partnership between the charity Diabetes UK, the University of York and Huddersfield University. It will be held at the National Science Learning Centre, in York, on 5 November.
Anne Phillips, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Health Sciences at the University of York, said: “We know there are 2.6 million people who have diabetes in the UK, and there could be a further 500,000 people who are unaware they are suffering from the disease. In the UK, one person is diagnosed with diabetes every three minutes and three people die every hour from diabetes related complications.
“Despite improvements in treatments for diabetes it remains a potentially dangerous disease because people are still relatively unaware of the harm it can do.”
The conference will hear Anna Morton, Programme Director at NHS Diabetes, set out the vision for diabetes care alongside presentations about vascular screening from Dr Kathryn Griffith, Cardiovascular Disease Clinical Lead in York, and insulin resistance from Dr Eleanor Scott, of the University of Leeds.
Tara Kadis, Lead Diabetes Specialist Nurse at Mid Yorkshire NHS Hospitals Trust, will outline the best use of current diabetes treatments and a range of clinical experts will offer thoughts on diabetes care with drug and alcohol misusers, in residential care and other special situations.
Diabetes UK has launched a new national campaign, ‘Get Serious’, this autumn to raise public awareness of the seriousness of the condition.
ENDSNotes to editors:
- The Department of Health Sciences at the University of York was rated equal first for the quality of its Health Services Research and fourth for its Nursing and Midwifery research in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. Find out more at www.york.ac.uk/healthsciences
- More information about Diabetes UK and its ‘Get Serious’ campaign is available at www.diabetes.org.uk.
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