Diabetes Professional Care 2015 launching on November 11

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London’s biggest diabetes show, Diabetes Professional Care 2015, launching on 11 and 12 November at the Barbican Exhibition Centre, will feature the latest technologies and products, ground-breaking solutions and valuable contacts providing the latest advice when it comes to the prevention, care and management of diabetes. The free-to-attend, CPD accredited, two-day conference and exhibition has been designed by healthcare professionals for healthcare professionals, providing visitors with all the latest information to empower patients to manage their own care pathways. The conference will feature eight content-rich subject streams including expert sessions from leading specialists at NHS England, Imperial College London, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Royal College of General Practitioners, Ninjabetic and the King’s Fund. Exhibitors at Diabetes Professional Care 2015 include several industry-leading names, such as Abbott Diabetes Care, Team Blood Glucose, Bayer, iHealth, Neubourg Pharma and Clinical Professional, many of whom will be using the show to launch new products to the market or unveil their very latest work. Visitors will also be able to attend the Diabetes Village; an exclusive area for Healthcare Professionals to network with like-minded individuals. Similarly, the Digital Health Kitchen provides an area where start-up companies will be showcasing the most innovative solutions for treating diabetes. For further information please visit www.diabetesprofessionalcare.com or email the team on [email protected].

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[tim2000s]

The agenda for this looks pretty interesting. It's a pity that the "Patient First" approach of the new NHS is somewhat missing from the approaches on display. I see Trudi Deakin will be there in the workshops.

Agenda is here: http://www.diabetesprofessionalcare.com/programme/agenda/#/

And for me, the Live Debate (http://www.diabetesprofessionalcare.com/programme/the-live-debate/) which asks:
"Which single intervention will be most effective at tackling the diabetes epidemic in the UK?"
could be answered very simply. Change the government and NHS recommended diet!!!

 

[tim2000s]

By the way, this is open to the public, and it's free, so if you want to attend, register here:

https://dpc.circdata-solutions.co.uk/RFG/publish/DPC15/

 

[LucySW]

The agenda for this looks pretty interesting. It's a pity that the "Patient First" approach of the new NHS is somewhat missing from the approaches on display. I see Trudi Deakin will be there in the workshops.

Agenda is here: http://www.diabetesprofessionalcare.com/programme/agenda/#/

And for me, the Live Debate (http://www.diabetesprofessionalcare.com/programme/the-live-debate/) which asks:
"Which single intervention will be most effective at tackling the diabetes epidemic in the UK?"
could be answered very simply. Change the government and NHS recommended diet!!!

Will you go Tim?

 

[tim2000s]

Will you go Tim?

Considering it as a "Diabetic Educator" in the "DOC" and "Senior Researcher" in "My Diabetes Experiment" qualifies me as a professional, I reckon What do you think?

 

[LucySW]

Highly professional. Not much doubt about that.

I wish some of it were online.

 

[tim2000s]

I popped along today for the session on "Social Media – a fad, a necessary evil or building blocks for better diabetic care?". The presenters were Dr Partha Kar and Laura Cleverley (Ninjabetic). An interesting discussion and the feedback from the patients in the room was that "We are here and ready to engage", yet a significant number of the professionals in the room don't come near this forum, which happens to be the largest congregation of diabetics on-line. I asked directly why that was and gave a big shout out to diabetes.co.uk for you @Administrator . It then got referenced a few more times.

One person asked Partha why their study looking at using text messages as a part of primary care got no interest. He asked them if they had reached out to groups like DCUK or JDRF and the null response gave a very clear view back as to where the problem lies.

There is a reticence to engage in these environments, but as long as an HCP remained anonymous and offered only the advice they would give in a clinic, it would be good to have them here. I think the too and fro about LCHF and reducing carbs might freak a few out though.

Partha laid down an interesting challenge to patients - come up with the model that you want for Diabetes care and let us work out how to implement it. That's something I'm game for!

 

[Administrator]

I was actually at the DPC and have just left - sorry that I didn't get the chance to say hi. Jess is there though if you'd like to say hi.

It's all very interesting - I'm really glad you gave DCUK a mention - communities are influencing health outcomes - and there is a real fear that places like DCUK remove authority from those in the white coats. It's really interesting and there is much more to it but Partha is doing a fab job to bridge the old with the new. Our education programs are becoming far more accepted even though data is self reported and a number of people within CCGs are interested in investigating the efficacy which is a real step forward.

 

[tim2000s]

If either of you is around tomorrow, let me know where you are likely to be and I'll say hello. I'm planning on popping over to see Trudi for half an hour.

 

[xAoifex]

I was at this today (and will be again tomorrow) I was also in Partha Kar's session. Judging by some of the other sessions he seems to be the exception and not the rule as far as patient involvement. One woman who commented in one session basically said patients need to know their place and that they are not the experts the Drs are! A lot of work to be done

 

[Celeriac]

I would have spontaneously combusted if she had said that around me !

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[LucySW]

there is a real fear that places like DCUK remove authority from those in the white coats.

This really made me think. They're right: many of us do manage ourselves medically, with only token reference to doctors. We get better results that way.

What is it they want to avoid? Serious question, not rhetorical question.

Lucy

 

[tim2000s]

I was at this today (and will be again tomorrow) I was also in Partha Kar's session. Judging by some of the other sessions he seems to be the exception and not the rule as far as patient involvement. One woman who commented in one session basically said patients need to know their place and that they are not the experts the Drs are! A lot of work to be done

Yes, I spoke to a few people. I'd agree completely. He is very much the exception. I was the person who asked a couple of questions in that session, and I had so many that I wanted to fire in. There was a general air about the whole conference of "We are HCPs and we know best". It really gets my goat. But I read through the whole agenda and suspected it might be.

This really made me think. They're right: many of us do manage ourselves medically, with only token reference to doctors. We get better results that way.

What exactly do they want to avoid? Serious question, not rhetorical question.

Lucy

Partha's question to the HCPs in the audience was basically "Patients now have the opportunity to be much better informed than at any time in the past. How do we facilitate this and work with it?"

 

[Celeriac]

Partha's question to the HCPs in the audience was basically "Patients now have the opportunity to be much better informed than at any time in the past. How do we facilitate this and work with it?"

Personally, I would start with the word 'patient', which has the implication that we are passive, waiting for HCPs to dish out their wisdom.

I disagree that we are better informed, I think we have the OPPORTUNITY to be better informed, but much of the information out there is misleading, wrong, even quackery. We also have the opportunity to share our experiences of diabetes, to swap ideas and find out that whatever the drug leaflets say, many people do get side effects which HCPs refuse to acknowledge.

HCPs need to realise that if we are looking for answers, it's a positive, because it means that we are invested in our health. That should never be seen as a negative, even if it does dent their egos.


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[mikeg1964]

Moved reply to another thread!

 

[Administrator]

This really made me think. They're right: many of us do manage ourselves medically, with only token reference to doctors. We get better results that way.

What is it they want to avoid? Serious question, not rhetorical question.

Lucy

What is it they want to avoid? Arguably, with many, not being the authority.

 

[Celeriac]

I wonder whether sometimes GPs feel stuck between a rock and a hard place. They don't advocate low carb because that's not NHS Policy and they are contractually bound to it. Yet they see good results from patients on lower carb diets. For the open-minded ones it must be a minefield.

My GP is very supportive of me, always has been. Of the 150+ patients in his practice with T2DM, I had the worst HbA1c at diagnosis. I'm the only patient doing LCHF and I'm the only one who has improved so much. He's always visibly pleased when I do well and congratulates me, but he doesn't ever say anything that could be deemed as pro-low carb.

His experience is that most people with T2DM are on a conveyor belt to insulin and complications, partly because they don't want to bother with testing, they have no intention of altering their lifestyle and some (like my MIL) think that taking their tablets should be good enough. Nor can be go against NHS policy. It must be frustrating for him.

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[LucySW]

What is it they want to avoid? Arguably, with many, not being the authority.

Yes that's clearly part of it, but beyond that.

People self-treating and getting wildly unpredictable outcomes inc wild hypos and DKA, I suppose. It doesn't seem to be complications - the health authorities don't seem to put much effort into keeping complications risk low.

Anyone know the figures for annual hospital-referred hypos in the UK?

 

[tim2000s]

Yes that's clearly part of it, but beyond that.

People self-treating and getting wildly unpredictable outcomes inc wild hypos and DKA, I suppose. It doesn't seem to be complications - the health authorities don't seem to put much effort into keeping complications risk low.

Anyone know the figures for annual hospital-referred hypos in the UK?

Just found some data - and here it is:

• In the period 2010/2011, the hospitals admissions statistics showed there were 21,116 admissions due to DKA.
• For Hypoglycaemia, the available data suggest between 70,000 - 100,000 emergency call-outs per annum in the UK, at significant cost which equates to about 1% of all call outs. The majority of these are treated at home/on location.Given that each call out costs around £240, at the top end, this is £24mn spent on treating hypos.
• In 2011- 2012, there were 11,759 admissions due to hypoglycaemia (NHS Information Centre) accounting for 45,502 bed days.

So what can we take from this? Well we could certainly ask the question of how much could be saved by providing patients with Smartguard enabled pumps...?

I've written a lot more about this in my blog, however, the upshot is that the cost of emergency hypoglycaemic intervention works out at roughly 0.5% of all Diabetic care expenditure on the NHS, so the reality is that it is not even a rounding error in the overall NHS budget!

Data is from the ABCD Admissions avoidance paper. http://www.diabetologists-abcd.org.uk/JBDS/JBDS_IP_Admissions_Avoidance_Diabetes.pdf

 

[LucySW]

Tim, I am a fan. Lost in admiration.

(I showed your three blogposts on the insulin ports to my endo.)

And your point about how Smartguard might plug some of that leaching of resources - yes, bravo.

Talking state medical systems, though, mainly cultural reasons (meaning culture of bureaucratic behaviour) will probably prevent it happening.

Same with a similar but less hysterical state medical system here in Denmark. Here the main advantage is much smaller country: 5 million rather than 64 million. Danish bureaucracy is every bit as awful as British. But much smaller scale, and much stronger state.