Monthly update: sharing good practice

Examples of good practice in diabetes care and commissioning to help you drive improvement

February 2020

• Working in partnership with BAME communities

  We want to make sure that everyone has the opportunity to be involved in, and a diverse range of voices are heard and used to improve the NHS Diabetes programme.

  Watch our webinar to hear about examples of how to effectively involve people affected by diabetes from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities. It focuses on four case studies that demonstrate examples of engagement with different audiences using different approaches:

• Men’s Health in East Oxford – Healthwatch Oxfordshire & Oxford United FC, Nigel Carter - Project report (PDF, 2.9 KB) 
• Engaging the Kurdish, Turkish and Turkish Cypriot communities in North Central London – Diabetes UK and London Clinical Networks, Catherine Romer - Project summary (PDF, 1.3 KB)
• Insight into engaging South Asian, Black African & Black Caribbean audiences with the Diabetes Programme - NHSE & Cultural Intelligence Hub, Leicia Feare - CiH findings (PDF)
• Community Champions Programme – Diabetes UK, Jasmin Chowdhury

Explore our resource library

Good Practice Archive

January 2020

• Check, Change, Chat: A checklist for consultations with people with diabetes who inject insulin

November 2019

• Dietary guides for people with diabetes who are homeless or in temporary living

October 2019

• Good Diabetes Care in School Award 

September 2019

• Using pharmacists to help improve care for people with type 2 diabetes

August 2019

• Joint British Diabetes Society - a good inpatient diabetes service (PDF, 2,217KB)

July 2019

• Download the Top tips for collecting NaDIA harms (PDF, 198KB)

June 2019

• Leicester Inpatient Diabetes Dashboard (493 KB)

May 2019

• Ramadan and Diabetes Guide for Clinicians

April 2019

• Ayrshire diabetes in pregnancy project recognised: Lead diabetes midwife at NHS Ayrshire & Arran wins award for gestational diabetes service redesign

March 2019

• Patient Feedback: Wessex Peer Review of Foot Care Services and Pathway for People with Diabetes (PDF, 614KB)
• How to use root cause analysis to reduce diabetes-related amputations (PDF, 205KB)

February 2019

• How to write a case study for sharing good practice, Diabetes UK (PDF, 128KB)

January 2019

• Moving Beyond the Classroom: simulation training on diabetes-related hypoglycaemia (PDF, 507KB)

December 2018

• GReaT groups (Getting Ready for Transition): Supporting transition to secondary school for children and parents living with diabetes, University College London Hospital, Child and Adolescent Psychological Services

November 2018

• Upskilled pharmacists take on diabetes roles in Colchester

October 2018

• The All-Wales Standard for People with Diabetes Moving from Paediatric to Adult Services within NHS Wales
• Improving access: Group Consultations in Slough

September 2018

• A whole systems approach to improving safety in hospital for people with diabetes
• Engaging and educational games to use for Hypo Awareness week: 'Hypo Snakes and Ladders' and 'Hypo Snap' (both created by Sarah Gregory at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust)

August 2018

• Learning from our mistakes, DSN Forum UK, YouTube website
• Improving time for referral for foot complications on dialysis units (PDF, 1.08MB)

July 2018

• Top tips for having better conversations with your patients, Diabetes UK, YouTube website

• Hypers and Hypos – managing them in hospital, PocketMedic website

June 2018

• Small changes, big difference, University of Leeds and The Health Foundation, YouTube website

May 2018

• Diabetes Specialist team and Community Nurses (CNs) working in partnership – How the creation of a ‘Virtual Ward’ led to improved patient outcomes and saved nursing time in North East Essex (PDF, 225KB) 

April 2018

• Identifying people with diabetes on entry to hospital (PDF, 228KB)
• Top tips for talking to people with a learning disability about diabetes (PDF, 19.5MB)

March 2018

• Don’t Risk It For A Biscuit - A simple way of reducing nocturnal hypoglycaemia on renal wards at Hammersmith Hospital (PDF, 540 KB)  
• Tayside's DOT.dig garden workshop - reimagining children's diabetes outpatient care (PDF, 15 MB)

February 2018

• Find out how you can empower inpatients with diabetes with the University Hospital Southampton's insulin self-administration tool.
• Use the short PocketMedic video to help you prevent hypos in hospital. Find out how you can empower inpatients with diabetes with the University Hospital.