Update 2008
Spring 2008
Content
Articles available to download:
Quality and reform
Why integrated care is vital for people with diabetes
Hypoglycaemia Fact sheet 48
Education about how to treat and avoid hypoglycaemia - for people with diabetes and clinical staff
Articles not available online:
News
- PM call for national diabetes screening
- DSNs could save the NHS £100 million
- Type 2 - related heart attack doubled
- Risky business
- Type 1 starter pack
- £40m to tackle obesity epidemic in Scotland
- Is Alzheimer's Type 3 diabetes?
Features
- Piece by piece
Part one in our four-part series on care planning and diabetes
Clinical practice
- Targeting young people
Tailoring a diabetes service to the needs of young people
Research Focus
- Trends, grants and deadlines for diabetes researchers
Health talk
- Risky business
Advising people with diabetes about risk
Diabetes Update is Diabetes UK's quarterly publication for professionals working in diabetes healthcare and research. Combining news, features, fact sheets and treatment overviews, the publication is an accessible source of authoritative, up-to-date infomation about diabetes care and research.
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