News and features
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Join your forum steering committee
Published: 11 July 2011
We have one vacancy on the Diabetes Nursing Forum Steering Committee this year. The forum would welcome applications from those working in all areas of this specialism, and from across the UK for this voluntary post.
Free learning unit updates nurses on diabetic complications
Published: 29 June 2011
Nursing Times Learning has collaborated with NICE to launch a free online learning unit
Brand new organisation addresses ethnic group
Published: 11 May 2011
RCN Forum Chair Grace Vanterpool and Newsletter Editor Mulli Lawal have helped form the African Caribbean Diabetes Foundation UK (ACDF – UK), which aims to improve awareness about diabetes care for this ethnic group.
Forum study day a firm success
Published: 11 May 2011
It was informative and interesting, with very positive feedback.
New quality standards
Published: 11 May 2011
NICE has just published new quality standards in March 2011 with the intention to support the National Service Framework for Diabetes and locally agreed pathways of care for diabetes. Click here to see the 13 quality statements.
High praise indeed!
Published: 11 May 2011
Keith Booles, forum member and Senior Nurse Lecturer at Staffordshire University, has won, along with his colleague Specialist Diabetes Nurse Patricia Clawson, the Clinical Category award at this year’s Abracadabra Diabetes Conference for a project working on diabetes care in the prison environment.
Diabetes care report now online
Published: 11 May 2011
With a forum member involved in the scoping exercise and some valid, though sobering points raised, the report is certainly a worthwhile read.
Letter from the Editor
Published: 11 May 2011
Muili Lawal discusses what’s inside, from the latest reports on diabetes care to award-winning initiatives and new organisations
Self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) in non-insulin-treated Type 2 diabetes
Published: 09 November 2010
The Department of Health England have produced a new report on self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) in non-insulin-treated Type 2 diabetes.