ESPE Abstracts

Background: Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) in children carries significant psychological stress for families, as well as considerable long-term complications if good metabolic control is not achieved. Tighter metabolic control carries increased risk of hypoglycaemic episodes, and previous research suggests that families with a high fear of hypoglycaemia will run blood sugars higher in order to avoid this. Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) provides real time temporal measure...

Background: Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) continues to pose serious health risks with devastating long-term complications. UK management and control of T1DM in children and young people (CYP) remains amongst the poorest in Europe and significant variations in diabetes health outcomes are evident. In 2012–13 a Best Practice Tariff (BPT) for paediatric diabetes care was introduced and a National Peer Review Quality Assurance programme (DQuINS) developed. Both were develop...