Update 2007
Autumn 2007
Content
Articles available to download:
Nurses in development
What future for nurses specialising in diabetes? Part three of our series on becoming a diabetes specialist.
Monogenic diabetes fact sheet
Identifying managing rare forms of diabetes in the clinic.
Articles not available online:
News
- Obesity ‘threatens future of NHs’, says new Wanless report
- Vitamin deficiency linked to diabetic complications
- PCTs urged to improve diabetes self care
- ‘Policy pack’ targets medical conditions in schools
- Study puts self-monitoring on trial
- Diabetes raises post-trauma infection risk
- Year of Care pilot sites announced
- Report strengthens case for screening Type 2 risk
Comment
- Year of Care – the power of planning
Diabetes UK’s Head of Healthcare Policy introduces the Year of Care approach
Features
- Making the connections: improving diabetes care
How England’s local diabetes networks are shaping up
- Tight control and hypoglycaemia avoidance during pregnancy: A difficult balance.
Research Focus
- Trends, grants and deadlines for diabetes researchers
Health talk
- Something chronic
Unpacking what it means to have chronic condition
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