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Launch of the National Advisory Panel on Care Home Diabetes

Guidance and tools to enhance the quality of diabetes care for care home residents.

Embedding flash glucose monitoring technology within neighbourhood nursing teams

Using flash glucose monitoring sensors in the community to improve care quality and reduce insulin errors.

Conference over coffee: Frailty, obesity and sex

More short, sharp summaries from the PCDS National Conference in November 2021.

Diabetes Distilled: Bone fragility and fractures – a common complication still ignored

A common and severe complication of diabetes, and how primary care can help.

Deintensifying type 2 diabetes care – when and how

An approach to the individualisation and deintensification of diabetes care in those who might benefit from it.

Diabetes Distilled: Is it time to STEP up to more intensive blood pressure targets?

New studies challenge guidance on targets for older people with diabetes.

Diabetes Distilled: Diabetes and frailty: Consensus statement on the management of older adults with type 2 diabetes

New expert consensus statement addresses gap in guidance on therapeutic routes to achieving glycaemic targets in this population.

11th Welsh Conference of the PCDS: Part 1

Key learning points from the conference and their application to primary care practice.

PCDS Question Time: Prescribing guidance in primary care

An expert panel of four PCDS committee members answers questions from primary care on delivering diabetes care during the COVID-19 pandemic, prescribing guidance and more.

Q&A: Medicines optimisation in primary care – taking a patient-centred approach

Su Down answers questions from primary care regarding diabetes remission, medicines optimisation, treatment individualisation and more.

COVID-19: How to switch from twice-daily to once-daily basal insulin

How to switch from a twice-daily to a once-daily basal insulin regimen in people with type 2 diabetes, to reduce the number of community nursing visits.

COVID-19: How to switch from twice-daily to once-daily basal insulin

This guide outlines how to switch from a twice-daily to a once-daily basal insulin regimen in people with type 2 diabetes, in order to reduce the number of community nursing visits during the COVID-19 pandemic.

How to manage diabetes in later life

Clinical considerations when caring for older or frail people with diabetes. A quick reference guide, updated in April 2020.

Diabetes Distilled: The glycaemic management paradox

Older people and those with comorbidities are more likely to have tight glycaemic control than younger people who would benefit more and be harmed less.

Frailty in diabetes: A new complication with enormous clinical significance

Professor Alan Sinclair introduces a new Position Statement from the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists on managing frailty in older adults with diabetes.

New advice on frailty and type 2 diabetes management: A great start to the year!

Su Down reviews new advice on frailty from the ABCD and an update to the ADA/EASD consensus report on type 2 diabetes management.

HbA1c variability linked to cognitive decline in non-diabetic older adults

Association between HbA1c variation and cognitive decline in older people

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