Diabetes
News
‘Worrying’ inequalities gap highlighted in children’s emergency healthcare
24 December 2017
School-aged children from the poorest areas are two and a half times more likely to be admitted to hospital in an emergency for asthma than their counterparts in the richest areas, and this gap has grown substantially in a decade, new research reveals today.
Committee
Paediatric Diabetes and Endocrinology CSAC
The College Specialty Advisory Committees (CSACs) supervise the development and delivery of sub-specialty training and assessment standards. CSACs are sub-committees of our Education and Training Quality Committee, which helps the College set these standards within a training programme that is recog...
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Audits team
News
Local Government Association calls for urgent action on childhood obesity following increase in children with Type 2 diabetes
14 August 2017
Ahead of the first anniversary of the publication of the Government’s childhood obesity plan the Local Government Association (LGA) is calling for urgent action to tackle childhood obesity, given the rising rates of children diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. Although not every case of Type 2 diabetes ...
Resource
Growing up with diabetes: children and young people in England - research report (2009)
Caring for children and young people with diabetes involves a complex process of care provision. Accurate, up-to-date knowledge is crucial to the planning and delivery of best quality health care. This report sets out the findings of a working group established to survey the number of children and y...