Category: Diabetes

Preventing type 2 diabetes: guidance for GPs (SIGN, 2025)

This is a new guideline from SIGN on preventing Type 2 Diabetes. It was published in March 2025.

Video: Dr Varun Anand – adult obesity and weight management

Dr Varun Anand gives a webinar on adult obesity and weight management in general practice.

Breaking bad news to patients: a sessional GP’s guide

Dr Sabira Hughes and Dr Priyanka Saigal, Medicolegal Consultants at Medical Protection, describe situations when GP locums might be required to break bad news, why it is important to be good at breaking bad news, the consequences of getting it right or wrong, and frameworks GP locums can use to break bad news.

Finerenone for CKD in type 2 diabetes (Nice, March 2023)

This is a new guideline from Nice advising that we can use finerenone for selected patients with CKD and type 2 diabetes. 

GP low-carb intervention shows 77% diabetes remission

GPs in Southport who ran a 2013-2021 study just published their results in BMJ Nutrition, Prevention and Health.

T2DM: Type 2 diabetes Nice update (March 2022)

Essential info on patients with T2DM and hypertensions, CVD or heart failure – plus info on CGM.

Dapagliflozin in chronic kidney disease (CKD)

Dexcom G6 for continuous glucose monitoring

How can it be used to make a 'hybrid artificial pancreas'?

e-learning | Sotagliflozin with insulin for type 1 diabetes

A new guideline from NICE from February 2020 advises that sotagliflozin can be used alongside insulin for type 1 diabetes

Dapagliflozin with insulin for patients with Type 1 Diabetes

This is a new guideline from NICE on using dapagliflozin in patients with Type 1 diabetes.

e-learning | Ertugliflozin in type 2 diabetes and the other SGLT-2 inhibitors

This is a new guideline from NICE giving advice on ertugliflozin, published in April 2019. I am also doing a quick reminder about the other SGLT-2 inhibitors.

Nice | Pumps for diabetes that have integrated blood glucose sensors

It has been approved for those with 'disabling hypos' and may be particularly useful for children who are more sensitive to nocturnal hypogylcaemia.

Nice | Type 2 diabetes in children and young people

Nice | Type 1 diabetes in adults

Nice | Type 1 diabetes in children and young people

Diabetic foot problems

Exenetide prolonged release

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