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Diabetes Professional Care (DPC) 2020

November 11 - 13, 2020; Virtual

November 11 - 13, 2020 Virtual

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  • DPC 2020 Better Use of Resources Key to Improving Diabetes Care It is the quality of clinical leadership that determines a poor diabetes care environment, argue UK experts who say that COVID-19 has shown that staff such as pharmacists should be given wider roles.
  • DPC 2020 COVID-19 Points to Need for Integrated Obesity Services Specialist weight management services should be integrated with bariatric surgery in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic to help severely obese individuals lose weight, suggest leading UK clinicians.
  • DPC 2020 Huge Variations in Access Holding Back T1D Tech Adoption The 'completely unacceptable' variation in type 1 diabetes technology uptake in England and Wales need to be ironed out before closed loop systems can be more widely adopted, argue UK experts.
  • DPC 2020 COVID-19: Innovation Key to Keeping NHS Diabetes Prevention on Track The COVID-19 pandemic led to a slump in referrals to the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme but loosening the criteria plus taking the service online kept the service going, say experts.

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