PDGN News
PDGN Co-Chair John Bowis OBE and Secretary General Adrian Sanders were invited by the Economist Intelligence Unit to be part of an expert panel to look at how integrated health care can reduce costs and improve outcomes. A full report has been published including a scorecard that benchmarks the level of integration of diabetes services […]
Research Corner
Much of the research and studies make for grim reading with the implications for people and health care systems severe. All the more important to seek allies who can share and add force to your advocacy to seek improvements to prevention, encourage early diagnosis, and the best treatments. Britain Healthy lifestyle key to prevention of […]
World Diabetes Day Report continued
Aussies Get Their Socks Off Again Every year there are more than 27,000 hospital admissions in Australia for diabetes-related foot ulcers. Many of these will lead to people having a limb, or part of a limb, amputated. However, a new pathway tool developed by Diabetes Australia and the Australian Diabetes Society, will help health professionals […]
World Diabetes Day Report continued
Kenya A Kenya Diabetes Management and Information Centre event partnered with the Ministry of Health, Novo Nordisk and Roche was used to highlight the burden of Diabetes in the country and the plight of people living with diabetes. Held at the Serena Hotel in Nairobi the event majored on the role nurses and other health workers […]
World Diabetes Day Report
What you got up to and ideas for next year. Sri Lanka A Sri Lankan home nursing service was at the forefront of advocating this year’ s campaign for World Diabetes Day – ‘Nurses Make the Difference’, by recognising the important work nurses perform. The World Diabetes Day theme aimed to value the crucial role […]
Not Just People with Diabetes at Increased Covid Risk
In a major study in Spain, researchers have concluded that abnormally high blood sugar may worsen outcomes and mortality rates for Covid-19 patients, including those without diabetes. The findings show patients with abnormally high glucose levels were more than twice as likely to die from the virus than those with normal readings. 11,000 non-critically ill […]
Congo First
UK diagnostics innovator Glyconics has won an £85k UK government grant to implement low-cost diabetes screening in developing countries. The start-point is the Democratic Republic of the Congo which has the fifth highest incidence of the condition in Africa. The initial six-month programme deploys Glyconics’ pioneering handheld diabetes screening device backed by grant aid under […]
Aussie Eye Screening Target
A University of Sydney study has found only half of people living with diabetes get recommended eye checks putting them at risk of vision loss and blindness. Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness in working age Australians. All people with diabetes are at risk of diabetes related retinopathy which causes damage to the back […]
News From Across the Globe: Irish Court Ruling on Subway Bread
An Irish Court has ruled that the bread used in Subway’s heated sandwiches doesn’t fit the legal definition of bread in Ireland due to its high sugar content. The Country’s Supreme Court ruled in Dublin that with a high sugar content, the sandwich could not be deemed a staple food which attracts a zero Value […]
EGIDE Integrated Care Policy Paper Published
The Expert Group for Integrated Care and Digital Health Europe (EGIDE) – a group of experts supported by Sanofi, whose objective is to enhance chronic disease management through integrated patient pathways and digitalisation of health – presented its Policy Paper on ‘Putting people at the centre – Integrated care for chronic diseases in Europe’. The […]
Cross The Aisle Action
Democrat and Republican lawmakers in the USA have called for bi-partisan policies to expedite diabetes research. Speaking at a Diabetes and The Future of Healthcare Reform event, Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) discussed what she saw as some of the obstacles to better care. “What we see in the diabetes realm is a very slow process at the Centers for […]
Half of 20 year-olds in India’s Cities Likely to Develop Diabetes!!!!!
In a month when the headlines suggested half of the population of India will have been infected with COVID 19 by February 2021 (link to a report below), the news that half of all 20 year-olds in India’s metropolitan areas could develop diabetes was somewhat overlooked. The growth of cities on the Indian Sub-Continent has […]