We had the BEST day at our conference!
So much networking & learning with some incredible great speakers!
✨Here are some of our favourite highlights from the day✨
💯% of you said you’d recommend to colleagues! Here is to 2024!
🙏🏻 to team
@LisaKOTT
& our sponsors!
#DSNF23
1️⃣Type 1 - do not make insulin due to autoimmune process
2️⃣Type 2, insulin either can’t work effectively, or can’t produce enough
3️⃣Type 3 caused by pancreatic trauma
🤰🏼Gestational - diabetes during pregnancy
🧬 MODY- genetic types
⬆️In all types glucose builds up in the blood
1. Know your different insulins (see photo)
2. Never write IU or any other abbreviation of the word units
3. Ask your DSN for help if you’re not sure...we don’t bite honest 😉
#TipsForNewDocs
‼️Big NEWS‼️
👉 Update to
#FSL2
LibreLink app 📱coming soon, will remove the need for “scanning”.
👉 Minute-by-minute glucose automatically to phone.
🚫 Reader device and A5X devices will remain as “flash” & scanning still needed.
#gbdoc
#Libre
#CGM
✨ Launched just last night at our
#CGM
webinar, all new CGM/Flash comparison chart - a menu full of CGM choice✨
Thanks to
@DTN_UK
&
@parthaskar
for your help.
We hope this goes some way to helping
#gbdoc
decide on the device for you!
Find it:
🔗
1. Know your different insulins (see photo)
2. Never write IU or any other abbreviation of the word units
3. Ask your DSN for help if you’re not sure...we don’t bite honest 😉
#TipsForNewDocs
💞We have some exciting news!!💞
Our team of mini DSNs expanded today as
@Amandaepps123
became a Granny!
Welcome to our club; Isla Rose 6.14lbs!
HUGE CONGRATS to family Epps on her arrival! 🥳
Love from Auntie Beth, Vicki, Tamsin & Susan & Zoe
💞
⚠️ Supply issues:
people with *all types of diabetes* using:
▶️ disposable FLEXTOUCH pens
▶️TRESIBA U100/ml
✔️ Your HCP may need to switch you to cartridges with a Novopen 6/smart pen)
Please ask for 2 x Novopen6 - one for back up👍🏻
See
🔗
#gbdoc
We can’t keep it a secret any longer... we are super proud & honoured to say we’ve been invited to No. 10 amongst an amazing group of HCPs & PWD to meet the PM & Larry🤞🏻! we cannot wait to go & represent DSNs from around the UK we have come to know so well!
#thankyou
#teamDSN
⚠️FREESTYLE LIBRE UPDATE ⚠️
🍏 iOS users
❓haven't updated the app yet? Don’t!
It may crash & you will temporarily require a reader to use your sensor!
📞 Request a reader direct!
🩸 Ensure you have in date BG strips & a meter to use
🩹Abbott are working on a fix!
#gbdoc
🎉Yay….. Team DSN forum are now all MSc Diabetes positive!🎉
Hugest CONGRATS to
@Tazzy_devil777
&
@Amandaepps123
who passed theirs today with flying colours!! 👏🏼 👩🏼🎓 👩🏼🎓
We are super proud of you both!! 🥂
Enjoy your celebrations & no more study for a while! 🎉
💕
✨BRAND NEW ✨
Due to popular demand & to keep our CGM chart company..
🔄HYBRID CLOSED LOOP comparison chart adapted for HCP use from
@Tims_Pants
🔄
💻 📱 Available on our website here:
With thanks to
@geraldinegallen
for triple checking!
#gbdoc
Team
@DSNforumUK
were lucky enough to all receive a box of these tonight from Father Christmas🎅🏻 🎁
cannot wait to have a read & give these out to all of the lovely people we support with their
#diabetes
Incredibly helpful & Amazing work from
@DrRoseStewart
&
@TalkingType1
👏🏼
Following on from the awesome news from
@NICEComms
&
@parthaskar
If you are interested in looking at HCL systems & deciding which may suit your diabetes…
Check out our handy HCL chart👇🏻
Available to download on our website:
🔗
#gbdoc
A promise made?
Is a promise kept
Announced today by
@NICEComms
Much work ahead
Yet?
This opens a whole new world to many thousands living with
#T1Diabetes
With much love & gratitude to the
#T1D
community 💙
Link:
#ClosedLoops
#T1Diabetes
Knowing your “Flozins” is quite the art! Spanning all 3 CvRM specialties! 🤔
📊We’ve made things easier in our new free & downloadable chart
👍🏻Check your Cana, Dapa, Empa & Erto for all the licenses & need to know info!
Available now!
🔗
#WDD2023
Refresh on
#SickDayRules
🤒
💦 stay hydrated
💉 do not stop your insulin
💊 check if you need to stop any oral meds
🩸 check BGLs every 2hr
🩸 check ketones if BG >14mmols
🚑 call for help if needed
Links below 👍🏼
#staySafe
Type 1️⃣ & 2️⃣ Adults-
‼️ IMPORTANT‼️
MSN from
@DHSCgovuk
surrounding GLP1
⚠️estimated 400,000 ppl
⚠️ 100,000 on insulin
⚠️ remaining 300,000 (50% are either on or have tried SGLT2i)
✔️ Where possible try to spread prescribing accross classes & for insulin amongst different device types
🙏Please can you all join us in wishing the fabulous
@sotonDSN
a very Happy Birthday 🎂 🎉
She is our one and only 👑 of blurb and our posts would be very boring without her 😘
I am now going to add lots of emojis to make her proud 🥲
🎊 🎉 🎈 🤩 😃 😘 💋 🌈☀️🌸🌹💐
Profs Jonathan Valabhji &
@parthaskar
opening the FIRST face to face conference for 2 years..
Discussing the last two years of data with diabetes & COVID19
So lovely to see everyone! 👋🏻
@diabetespc
#DPC2021
So today marks the start of
#hypoawarenessweek2020
Here we have a little introduction:
➡️ what are hypos ❓
➡️ who may be at risk 💊💉
Know your stuff 🤔💭
#HAW2020
Disappointed to see our work referred to twice in this
@pcdsociety
article, written by medic colleagues, however we seem to be missing from the reference list
Glad that our medic colleagues work was referenced appropriately.
Why isn’t our work acknowledged? We will ask why 😞
Tommy (18yo) travelled from the other side of Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 to see the Diabetes Team here.
Diagnosed with T1D & TB
We’re doing our very best to get info across to help him & his Aunt manage his diabetes!
@lifeforachild
supplies his insulin until he is 30
Day 2 of Hypo Awareness Week
Today we look at some of the common reasons why hypos may happen:
💊💉🚴🏏🥎⏰🥗🍴🛀🚿🍷🍺🍸
Sometimes there is no reason & this can be frustrating❓😩
#HAW2020
#hypoawarenessweek2020
#hypo
🚨 PSA to HCPs
💉 When prescribing insulin cartridges in replacement of disposable pens due to shortages
✅PLEASE also prx a pen device to use! - people with T1 diabetes need this to survive
If you’re unsure look at our free chart available below👇🏻
🔗
So. Been prescribed these for my back up basal incase of pump failure. Apparently because Tresiba pens were in short supply. Have always used traditional disposable pens, what kind of pen do I need for this?
#T1D
#GBDoc
#DiabetesChat
#DiabetesAwarenessMonth
💙
All types of diabetes can be treated with insulin, but people with T1 have to use it
🔑 Insulin is a hormone which acts as a key to let glucose into the cells so we can use it for energy 🏃🏽♀️
It is given under the skin using pre-filled pens or a pump
Amanda applying the first
@FreeStyleDiabet
Libre sensor for someone living with T1D in Sierra Leone 🇸🇱
To support the charity & help these people please consider giving anything you can here:
Many people here with T1 die before a year. 😔
#HelpMadina
Women account for 76.7% of the 1.3m
#NHS
workforce!
We are lucky to have so many amazing women in Team
#diabetes
across all of the
#HCP
&
#STEM
fields
To our friends, nurses, dietitians, doctors, podiatrists, pharmacists & psychologists & more 👏🏼
#InternationalWomensDay2022
🚨 HCL CRITERIA ANNOUNCED‼️🚨
1️⃣ All aged 0-18yrs with T1
2️⃣Adults 18yr+ with A1c >7.5%
3️⃣ OR disabling hypos
4️⃣ those trying to conceive
💵 Pending NHSE agreeing funding with industry partners
🗓️ 5year roll out planned
📑 Full guidance Expected mid October
#gbdoc
A promise is a promise
To ensure all with
#T1Diabetes
& carers are ‘in the loop’
Caveat: we are still in commercial negotiation
But if we crack it?
THIS is the criteria
A step change in care
A big step forward
Thank you to YOU
#gbdoc
Cos you are the force that mattered 💙
🔉Are you a UK 🇬🇧 diabetes nurse?
👩⚕️👨⚕️
🙏 help us by completing this 10 minute survey 📝
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic 🦠
on Diabetes Specialist Nurses 👩⚕️ in Europe 🌍:
A pan-European Survey on behalf of
@FEND_diabetes
🇬🇧 🇩🇪 🇫🇮 🇦🇹 🇫🇷 🇵🇱 🇪🇸
✨Happy Year of the HCL! 🎉 ✨
In prep for the
#hybridclosedloop
TA & helping DSNs get ready for action 👊🏼
We’ve created an easy crib sheet of..
✅things to adjust per HCL if hypo / hyper
✅automated mode adjustments
✅Editable functions
🔗
#gbdoc
Day 3 of Hypo Awareness Week
🗓 Today we are looking at the common hypo symptoms:
🥵🥴🙄😵🤤😫🥱😨😡
➡️ Not everyone will have the same warning signs ⚠️
➡️ some people have reduced hypo awareness or hypo unawareness ⚠️
#HAW2020
#hypoawarenessweek2020
‼️BREAKING NEWS 📰
@SanofiUK
are discontinuing production & all licenses in the UK, for these insulins in both solostar & catridge forms:
1️⃣ Insuman comb25
2️⃣ Insuman basal
3️⃣ Insuman rapid
Important to note that there are NO safety concerns with current supplies ✔️
Time in range vs time in happiness, shout out from
@YNHPT1D
to the wonderful
@DrRoseStewart
❤️ ❤️ we discussed our mutual girl crush before the talk 😂 we love you
@DrRoseStewart
Can we all please give a big happy birthday to our one and only
@sotonDSN
She would write this so much better than me haha
We love you
@sotonDSN
xx 😘 Have a lovely day 🎂 🍰 🧁 🍾🥂
ITS OUT!!!
We’ve been waiting a LONG time.. not that we’ve been sat hitting refresh or anything… 💻
Read the NEW TYPE2 Diabetes NICE guidance 📰 👇🏻
#type2diabetes
#NICE
@NICEComms
Congratulations to our super star
@Tazzy_devil777
for her MSC Graduation 👩🏻🎓 today.
Huge congratulations 🎉 from us all at team DSN forum.
Congratulations to
@Amandaepps123
too who is celebrating on her hols 🥂
Can’t wait to see this finally come out!!
We worked closely with a big team to get this right for people living with diabetes to help you decide on the right options for your diabetes…
We hope it helps! 💙
#gbdoc
Wrapping up this important project
Sneak preview.
To be released when
@NICEComms
greenlights
#ClosedLoop
work - thus incorporating up to date guidelines in
#T1Diabetes
A decision support tool (DST) for those with
#T1D
Thank you to all who helped.
It's cooking 🙂
#gbdoc
💉 Worried about the Covid vaccine?
🥺Worried about how it will affect your diabetes?🤯
Nervous with needles? 😖
✅ Team DSNForum have all had ours
& it was painless💪🏼
🦠 Watch our 60sec video which explains some Q&A’s here ⁉️
#COVIDVaccination
#Diabetes
#VaccinesSaveLives
😭 I teared up reading this, it’s just what we would do here.
🥲I had no idea this small act of kindness would mean so much to someone, I am so glad I was there to help 🥰
Thank you to
@GlucoRx
for the meters, they literally saved a life ❤️
🔗
We finally got to meet the fab
@AmeliaCookDSN
today, who is a Primary Care DSN in the Black Country
So happy that our
#HfRenDs
Season 2 conference brings us all together!!
Ready for a day of networking & learning with our renal & HF Nurse Specialist Colleagues 💛💙❤️
✨ NEW!✨
Our latest project for all your
#diabetes
Info help!
👍🏻“DSN Forum Does” Infographic series will explain in 5 easy steps!
1️⃣ SMARTPENS 🖊️
▶️Freely available on our website👇🏻
▶️For HCPs & people with diabetes
🔗
More coming soon!
#GBdoc
Happy
#InternationalWomensDay
to all the FABULOUS women across the Diabetes team!
The nurses & doctors, the Dietitan’s & psychologists, the podiatrists & midwives, the pharmacists & all the people living with diabetes too!
Have a good one! 💪🏼
With lots of love 💕
Wishing all of the fabulous
#Nurses
in
#Diabetes
& beyond an amazing
#InternationalNursesDay
2023 👏🏼
We are:
👩🏼🎓 Highly qualified
🩺 Advanced skills
📕 Knowledgeable
🫂 Caring
📊 Researchers
👩🏼⚕️Expert Practitioners
👥 321,624 of workforce
💙proud to be
#NHS
#NursesDay2023
⚠️To all HCPs⚠️
📢 People with T1 Diabetes CANNOT survive without insulin💉
❌Sending threats to stop it if they do not attend a RV is life threatening
❌T1D doesn’t go away (at present= no cure)
❌DKA admission costs = ⬆️
❌damages trust in HCP/systems
#gbdoc
Day 4
@InsulinSafety20
Week!
We are focusing on....
❗️PRESCRIPTIONS OF INSULIN❗️
So important to get this right to improve safety for all ✅ ⚠️
If you have a role in prescribing, preparing or giving insulin..
read our Top5️⃣ tips 👇🏻
#NurseTwitter
#medTwitter
#HCP
November is Diabetes Awareness Month 💙 Around the world, an estimated 415 million adults have diabetes
Please be aware of the “4 x T symptoms” & see your GP of you have them!
🚾Toilet- needing to wee lots!
😴Tiredness
💦Thirst- needing to drink lots
🚹Thinner- losing weight
Wishing you all a fab INSULIN SAFETY WEEK! ✨
Make sure you tag us into your fab awareness plans & education guys & gals & we will share away for you !!
Have fun everyone! 🤩🤩
@InsulinSafety21
#ISW2021
#InsulinSafety
#Thinksulin
💙
✨ Our CGM comparison chart has had new versions/updates added✨
💻 📊
Be sure to be on top of the latest info when looking at CGM choices or talking to people with diabetes about it! 👍🏻
Available to download for free on our website! 👇🏻
🔗
‘Specialist nurses are a good return on investment, the trouble is no one sees it’
Watch the amazing
@alisonleary1
discuss the huge value in specialist nurses at the
@hFRenDsUK
event in July 👇🏻
🔗
#CNSvalue
#Nursing
💙♥️💛
*NEWS*
The next step to ensure those living with
#T1Diabetes
have information at their fingertips tips
Decision Support Tool for managing
#T1Diabetes
Via
@NHSEngland
Thank you to all who helped develop this
Please RT, use & cascade
#gbdoc
Link:
⚠️Supply issues again. This time with the most common prescribed form of Glucagon (GlucaGen®)until mid-July.
HCP should counsel & prescribe Ogluo® pre-filled auto-injector pen.
#GBdoc
#gbdoc