Meal times when closed looping. Some points to consider
Once you’ve enabled your closed loop system, you might expect it to make mealtimes easier. All of the systems that you can currently use have, […]
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When we talk about complications, we need to talk about “Risk” #TalkAboutComplications
It’s hard not to have seen the recent Twitter and blog campaign that came about as the result of Grumpy Pumper’s diagnosis of a foot […]
Rise of the Machines – Technology and “patient-driven” innovation in the treatment of diabetes #T1DRoM
On Saturday, if you didn’t know already, we ran a first for the UK. A day’s conference focusing on Diabetes Technology, and majoring on “Patient […]
Diabetes Technologies that never took off. Whatever happened to the “Sprinkler Needle”?
One of the biggest difficulties people with Diabetes have with MDI is timing insulin delivery. This isn’t helped by advice received from HCPs which tends […]
Roll up, roll up. The #Freestyle Libre postcode lottery has started. You gotta be in it to win it….
Earlier today, the first NHS England CCG response to the Libre appeared on Twitter, from the East of England Priorities Advisory Committee. Looking to the […]
Port and Portability – form and physicality of the closed loop
With a nod to the nineties, thank you Mr Curtis and Mr Elton, and some sweet alliteration, my tramping around with a veritable “pancreas farm” […]
Abbott’s #FreestyleLibre – disrupting and democratising Diabetes care in Europe
A little over two years ago, the Abbott Freestyle Libre launched, to much fanfare and significant consumer trialling and direct patient marketing (anyone see a […]
The #3Rs technique – what T1Ds do when Reviewing and Reacting #DOC #gbdoc
Following a very positive response to the 3Rs technique for diabetes management, the questions that have been raised to me a couple of times “What […]
The 3Rs – Record, Review, React: A straightforward way to manage your Diabetes #DOC #gbdoc
I’d like to say I’d thought about this long and hard, and it was the culmination of a life’s thinking about how we can best […]
The Triangle of Diabetes Care. A step in the right direction? #freestylelibre #sugarsurfing
When attending the Diabetes Professional Care conference, I noticed a session on the agenda titled “Triangle of Diabetes Care and the Ambulatory Glucose Profile”, by […]