PCDS Smart update in diabetes: In light of experience: Newer therapies for type 2 diabetes: How do we make treatment decisions now - have the guidelines helped?
7th September 2010, Rheged Centre, Penrith
PCDS Smart update in diabetes- In light of experience: Newer therapies for type 2 diabetes: How do we make treatment decisions now - have the guidelines helped?
30th September 2010, Miskin Manor, Cardiff
Breaking down the barriers in type 2 diabetes: Answers to the key questions affecting day-to-day practice
19th October 2010, Radisson SAS Hotel, Birmingham
Breaking down the barriers in type 2 diabetes: Answers to the key questions affecting day-to-day practice
21st October 2010, The Met, Leeds
Dr Martin Hadley-Brown
PCDS ChairDr Martin Hadley-Brown is Senior Partner at the School Lane Surgery in Thetford, Norfolk and also worked at Elsie Bertram Diabetes Unit in Norwich from 1997 until 2004.
He is a trustee of the Norwich & Norfolk Diabetes Trust and a clinical teacher for the University of Cambridge Graduate Course in Medicine. A member of the Primary Care Diabetes UK committee from 2001 and of the Professional Advisory Council of Diabetes UK from its creation in 2003, he hopes to combine his professional interests of general practice, diabetes and education in his work with the Primary Care Diabetes Society.
He has led numerous educational meetings and initiatives, primarily in East Anglia and most often on the subject of diabetes.
Constitution - aims
- To promote the awareness of, and interest in, diabetes within primary care.
- To encourage evidence-based practice in relation to diabetes care by the primary care team, including the implementation of appropriate standards.
- To promote research and development related to providing good quality diabetes care in the primary care setting.
- To act as a resource for the provision of high-quality integrated care information about diabetes for the primary care team.
- To promote the integration of diabetes care amongst all healthcare professionals.
- To contribute actively to discussion on diabetes issues at national level.
- To embrace the aims of the Primary Care Diabetes Europe Group, of which PCDS is an active member.
Why is the PCDS needed now?
The epidemic of diabetes is upon us. At last governments and health care systems are creating strategies they hope will quell the rising tide. At a time of great change in the NHS, new educational initiatives will focus on the promotion of healthier lifestyles while renewed media interest calls for a greater emphasis on the prevention and early detection of diabetes.The National Service Framework for Diabetes, together with the new General Medical Services contract, has brought diabetes to the fore, and placed it firmly in the primary care domain.
Healthcare professionals in primary care need a new forum for debate, a new organisation to promote discussion and awareness of the modern management of diabetes and its complications - to act as a professional voice in the new health care environment. We are proud, therefore, to have formed the Primary Care Diabetes Society (PCDS). This group represents all healthcare professionals involved with diabetes primary care, not only general practitioners and practice nurses but also GPSIs (GPs with Special Interest) and clinical assistants. It is building a database of key opinion leaders working in primary care as well as forging close links with PCD Europe, Diabetes UK, ABCD, The Royal Colleges and SAPC (The Society for Academic Primary Care), along with all other leading bodies within diabetes.
The Diabetes & Primary Care journal is the official publication for the society. Following on from the great success of the previous five years, the 2010 National Conference 'Ensuring a new decade of high quality diabetes care' will take place on 19-20 November 2010 at The Hilton Birmingham Metropole.
Remember that this is your Society. it will evolve to reflect and represent your views, ideas and opinions. Please join, contribute and have a voice.
