hrp0098p1-308 | Late Breaking 2 | ESPE2024

Empowering diabetes self-management and peer connections – The role of a community young adult diabetes specialist nurse (CODSN) and diabetes youth worker (YW) in improving outcomes, Transition Safe and Sound (TraSS), an NHS England pilot.

Carden Kelly , Schlesinger Sarah , Kumaran Anitha

Aim: Transition to adult diabetes services is associated with deterioration in service experience and outcomes. We aimed to increase the uptake of structured education and provide opportunities for peer support. We describe the early outcomes of the innovative Transition (NHSE) pilot TraSS, to improve services for 16–24-year-old young adults (YA).Method: CODSN and YW met with YA in clinics and gained consent to inc...