PCDO Society National Conference 2025: Request for poster abstracts

Posters should provide examples of good practice or innovation in diabetes or obesity care within the primary care setting, highlighting work that is of relevance and, ideally, practical significance to other primary care teams. Accepted posters will be displayed in the exhibition hall during the conference and will be judged by the PCDO Society Committee. An award will be presented for the entry that reflects the best contribution to diabetes and obesity within the primary care setting.

Entries are also open for the Roger Gadsby Award recognising an outstanding audit in primary care diabetes or weight management, with a cash prize of £500 for the winner. See overleaf for more information about the entry requirements for the award.

Click here to go to the booking page for the 21^st National Conference of the PCDO Society, where you will find an online submission form. Your abstract will be anonymously peer reviewed and you will receive confirmation of acceptance or non-acceptance by early October 2025.

Click here to see last year’s abstracts.

Entry process and requirements

Entries are invited in the form of a titled abstract of no more than 250 words, which should include the following sections:

• Aims or objectives
• Methods
• Results
• Conclusions or summary

Please contact the events team at [email protected] if you have any questions or require further information.

Enter your poster for the Roger Gadsby Award

For your chance to win the £500 prize, enter a poster describing your primary care diabetes or obesity audit.

An audit is a proven method of quality improvement, giving practices a systemic way to look at what they should be doing, what they are doing and how to make improvements to benefit patient care. When deciding what to audit, there are a few things to consider:

• The diabetes- or obesity-related condition being audited should affect large numbers of people.
• There should be an evidence base for the condition and the interventions being audited.
• At baseline there should ideally be variations in care.
• The audit cycle should include data collection at baseline, the intervention or change in practice, and re-audit after a pre-agreed time to measure change.

Entries must be made electronically by 17.30 on Friday 29 August 2025.

Click here to go to the booking page for the 21^st National Conference of the PCDO Society, where you will find an online submission form. Your abstract will be anonymously peer reviewed and you will receive confirmation of acceptance or non-acceptance by early October 2025. Abstracts of accepted posters will be published in a special supplement to Diabetes & Primary Care.

Entry process and requirements

Entries are invited in the form of a titled abstract of no more than 250 words, which should include the following sections:

• Aims or objectives: What is the objective of the audit?
• Methods: Criteria, standard(s), target(s) and exception(s) and the time between baseline and re-audit.
• Results: The baseline and re-audit results.
• Conclusion: What improvements have been achieved?

Please contact the events team at [email protected] if you have any questions or require further information.