Taking place across Monday 24th November and Tuesday 25th November this EXTOD Healthcare Professionals National Conference will be delivered by EXTOD and organised by SBK Healthcare.
***Special early booking discount of £50 off, if your place is booked before Friday 25th April.***
This unique forum will equip Diabetologists, Diabetes Specialist Nurses, Dietitians and Paediatricians with the knowledge, inspiration, and practical understanding of how to support Type 1 patients to undertake safe and effective exercise.
Sponsored by: 
Evidence-based presentations, case study led workshops and invaluable lived experience
This important, educational two-day conference will provide all attendees with current, evidence-based knowledge on managing Type 1 diabetes for exercise. With an absolutely packed programme, this unique forum will maximise each delegates learning experience. There will be presentations from experts in the field, interactive discussions, sessions led by people with T1D, all offering practical advice and clear strategies to use with patients with T1D in a clinical setting.
A unique opportunity for sharing ideas, networking and peer learning
Now in its 9th year, this EXTOD National conference offered two full days of valuable learning so that attendees can understand, manage and support people with Type 1 diabetes to undertake safe and effective exercise.
The key learning outcomes for 2025 will include:
- The challenges someone with Type 1 diabetes faces when exercising
- Experience of semi elite and elite sports people
- Exercise setting for each pump / closed loop system and how to use these settings for exercise
- New trials in Type 1 diabetes and exercise
- Latest update on technology and exercise
- Sports focus: specific insights into diabetes and exercise management
Attend as a delegate
The agenda for this insightful two-day conference is currently
being extensively researched and developed. If you would like to receive
the agenda once it is confirmed please use the reserve place button
above, we will then send you the agenda and speaker line-up. Alternatively, you are able to make a confirmed booking using the book place button above.
If you secure your place before Friday 25th April 2025, you will benefit from £50 off the full price.
The cost to attend this conference when booking before Friday 25th April is:
- £285+VAT - two day, early bird price for consultants and registrars
- £195+VAT - two day early bird price for nurses and dietitians.
If booking after Friday 25th April the cost to attend this conference will be:
- £335+VAT - two day full price for consultants and registrars
- £245+VAT - two day full price for nurses and dietitians.
We expect this conference will be very popular and so if you are planning on attending, we would encourage you to book or reserve a place as soon as possible. If you have any questions about attendance please email sophie.richardson@sbk-healthcare.co.uk or call 01732 897788.
Meet your sponsors
SBK Healthcare would like to thank Abbott, Air Liquide, Medtronic and Insulet, maker of Omnipod for sponsoring this unique forum.
Are you from industry or a commercial company and interested in supporting this EXTOD conference?
We would be delighted to discuss all of the available opportunities for you to get involved. Please email sarah.kemm@sbk-healthcare.co.uk or call 01732 897788.
Packed full of useful guidance, here are just a few comments from 2024:
We are currently in the process of developing the full agenda for 2025 alongside the EXTOD faculty.
Check back here to view the most up-to-date programme.
| 8.15 |
Registration and refreshments
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| 9.00 |
Welcome
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| 9.10 |
The challenges someone with Type 1 diabetes faces when exercising
Therapies discussed: Exercise, diet, finger and continuous glucose monitors, insulin, insulin pumps and closed loop systems.
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| 9.50 |
Lived experience: The reality of exercise with Type 1 diabetes
Three people who exercise will explain the problems they have with exercise and the solutions they have come up with. |
| 10.30 |
Networking break
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| 10.50 |
Keeping safe: pre-exercise assessment and complications
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| 11.25 |
Fundamentals of sports nutrition
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| 12.00 |
Workshop 1: Strategies BEFORE exercise: insulin, carbs and exercise
This workshop will be run in five parallel groups (two paediatric and three adult focused), with the same content. Each group will be run by two HCPs and a patient.
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| 1.00 |
Lunch and networking break
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| 2.00 |
Exercise setting for each pump / closed loop system and how to use these settings for exercise
In the main room, attendees will be introduced to each pump / closed loop system and be talked through features for exercise and how to use them. At the end all attendees will receive a summary sheet of the pros and cons of each system and recommendations for which system might suit different people.
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| 3.00 |
Workshop 2: Strategies DURING exercise: focusing on carbohydrates and exercise
Please return to your workshop group for this session.
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| 4.00 |
Networking break
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| 4.20 |
Workshop 3: Strategies AFTER exercise: focusing on carbohydrates and protein
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| 5.10 |
Drinks and canapes
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| 5.30 |
Summary of the day and Guest speaker
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| 6.00 |
Close of day 1
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We are currently in the process of developing the full agenda for 2025 alongside the EXTOD faculty.
Check back here to view the most up-to-date programme.
| 8.10 |
Collect badge and agenda for Day 2
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| 8.15 |
Breakfast rolls and networking
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| 8.25 |
Breakfast briefing: Patient presentation on kindness amongst the conflict
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| 8.55 |
Open conference room
At this point, anyone who did not attend the breakfast briefing can now enter the conference room ready for day 2 to start. |
| 9.00 |
Welcome
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| 9.10 |
Effect of Exercise on Pathology of Type 1 diabetes
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| 9.40 |
Avoiding and treating sports injuires
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| 10.30 |
Networking break
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| 10.50 |
Workshops 4a – 4f
These workshops will be run twice in the morning, the first time from 10.50am until 11.50am and then again from 11.50am until 12.50pm. You can attend two different workshops, which will be indicated on the top right of your badge. Please do visit the registration desk if you would like to change your workshop choices, or do not have a workshop indicated on your badge. Workshop choices are:
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| 11.50 |
Workshops 4a – 4f
At this point, please join your second-choice workshop for the morning, as indicated on your badge. |
| 12.50 |
Lunch and networking break
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| 1.45 |
The female athlete
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| 2.25 |
Workshops 5a – 5f
These workshops will be run twice in the morning, once from 2.25pm until 3.15pm and then again from 3.30pm until 4.30pm. You can attend two different workshops from the following:
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| 3.15 |
Networking break
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| 3.30 |
Workshops 5a – 5f
At this point, please join your second-choice workshop for the afternoon, as indicated on your badge. |
| 4.30 |
The EXTOD fellowship lecture 2024
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| 5.00 |
Close of day 2
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EXTOD faculty
The content of this interactive study day will be evidence based and delivered by members of the EXTOD faculty, plus additional speakers who are all experts in T1D and exercise including:
Giorgio Carrieri
Lead Nurse, Children's Diabetes Team
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Matt Cocks
Exercise Physiology Lecturer
Liverpool John Moores University
Claire Foster
Diabetes Dietitian
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
John Pemberton
Diabetes Dietitian
Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Gavin Griffiths
Founder and Shadow Trustee
League of Diabetes
Joe Jenkins
PhD student, School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences
University of Birmingham
Chris Bright
Community Partnerships and Events Lead
Breakthrough T1D
Catherine Russon
PhD student in Health Data Science
University of Exeter
Paul Coker
Diabetes Coach
Ross Mallen
Competitive Multi-discipline Cyclist
Who came in 2024?
2024's EXTOD National conference brought together over 140 attendees who benefitted from a unique and engaging learning environment. This forum illustrated the practicalities of managing exercise in individuals living with diabetes, with case study presentations and interactive scenarios.
We were joined by attendees with the following jobtitles:
- Advanced Specialist Dietitian - Diabetes
- ANP Diabetes
- Associate Specialist
- Clinical Governance Lead
- Consultant
- Consultant Diabetes and Endocrinology and General Medicine
- Consultant Diabetologist
- Consultant Endocrinologist
- Consultant in Diabetes & Endocrinology
- Consultant in Endocrinology & Diabetes
- Consultant in Paediatric Diabetes
- Consultant Paediatrician
- Consultant Physician and Endocrinologist
- Honorary Clinical Associate Professor & Simulation Training Lead for Clyde
- Consultant Physician Diabetes and Endocrinology
- Cystic Fibrosis Diabetes Dietitian
- Cystic Fibrosis DSN
- Diabetes Dietitian
- Diabetes Dietitian & Supplementary Prescriber
- Diabetes Educator
- Diabetes Educator Nurse Facilitator
- Diabetes Nurse
- Diabetes Nurse Education Facilitator (Scotland & Northern Ireland)
- Diabetes Specialist Dietitian
- Diabetes Specialist Dietitian/Team Lead Diabetes Dietitian
- Diabetes Specialist Nurse
- Dietitian
- Doctor
- Junior Diabetes Speciaist Nurse
- Lead Paediatric Diabetes Dietitian
- Paediatric Consultant
- Paediatric Diabetes Dietitian
- Paediatric Diabetes Nurse Specialist
- Paediatric Diabetes Specialist Nurse
- Paediatric Diabetic Specialist Nurse
- Paediatric Dietitian
- Paediatric Registrar
- Physician Associate
- Registrar
- Senior Diabetes Specialist Nurse
- Senior Dietitian
- Specialist DIabetes Dietitian
- Specialist Dietitian
- Speciality Doctor in Paediatrics
- ST6 Paediatric Registrar
From these organisations:
- Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
- Beacon Hospital Dublin
- Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- GNCH Newcastle upon Tyne
- Harrogate District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- HSE
- James Paget University Hospital
- Jersey Diabetes Centre
- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
- NHS
- NHS Borders
- NHS Fife
- NHS Forth Valley
- NHS Grampian
- NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
- NHS Lanarkshire
- NHS Lothian
- North Cumbria Integrated Care
- Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust
- Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Northumbria NHS Trust
- Novo Nordisk
- RVI
- Sheffield Children's Hospital
- Shropshire Health Community NHS Trust
- Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
- South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust
- States of Jersey
- Strathmore Diabetes Centre
- The James Cook University Hospital
- UHDB NHS Trust
- University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust
- University Hospital Limerick
- University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
- University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust
- University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
- University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
- University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
- Univesity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Attendee feedback
EXTOD National Conference has taken place since 2017, providing attendees with knowledge, inspiration, and a practical understanding of how to support Type 1 patients to undertake safe and effective exercise. Over 1,300 people have benefited from this unique education to-date, and here are just a few quotes from their experience at the 2024 conference held in Oxford:
Two days of education and networking
Book or reserve your place before Friday 25th April and receive £50 discount:
£285 + VAT - two day, early bird price for consultants and registrars (when booked before Friday 25th April)
£195 + VAT - two day, early bird price for nurses and dietitians (when booked before Friday 25th April)
- £335 + VAT - two day, full price for consultants and registrars (when booked after Friday 25th April)
£245+VAT - two day full price for nurses and dietitians (when booked after Friday 25th April)
Commercial companies are invited to sponsor this conference, please email sarah.kemm@sbk-healthcare.co.uk for details.
We expect this conference will be very popular and so if you are planning on attending, we would encourage you to book or reserve a place as soon as possible. If you have any questions about attendance please email sophie.richardson@sbk-healthcare.co.uk or call 01732 897788.
Accommodation
To book your discounted accommodation at the Hilton Liverpool City Centre for the EXTOD National Conference, please book directly with the hotel by clicking here.
Please note that these rates are inclusive of bed and breakfast, with a 28-day cancellation. Accommodation is available on a first come first served basis and is bookable on the nights of Sunday 23rd November and Monday 24th November.
SBK Healthcare does not facilitate accommodation bookings.
Terms and conditions
Registration fees
You
will be sent an instant payment option or invoice on registration. Your
payment is required in advance. If your fee has not been received prior
to the event, and you are not able to provide a PO or proof of payment,
you will be asked to make a credit or debit card payment on the day.
Modify registration
To let us know if your details are not correct when you have already registered, please email bookings@sbk-healthcare.co.uk.
Cancellations and substitutions
A
full refund of fees will be made only for cancellations received within
the first 48 hours of the booking being made. Notice of cancellation
must be received in writing by emailing the bookings team at SBK
Healthcare. Should you need to cancel your registration after this date,
the registration fee remains payable in its entirety although a
substitution will be accepted and conference documentation will be
provided. Substitution attendees for delegates unable to attend after
registering are acceptable at any time.
Conference changes
It
may be necessary for reasons beyond the control of the conference
organisers to alter the content, speakers or the timing of the
programme. We will endeavour to keep you abreast of such changes but any
unavoidable change to the format will not constitute a reason to refund
the fee. Should the event be postponed, we will endeavour to reschedule
the event. If, for reasons beyond the control of the conference
organiser, the event is cancelled, a full refund will be made. We do not
accept any liability for any incurred costs resulting from a
postponement or cancellation.
Certificate of attendance
A
certificate for Continuing Professional Development will be given to
every attendee, as a record of continuing professional training and
development.
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Upcoming events:
These events are delivered by EXTOD, organised by SBK Healthcare with full details available to view on the Diabetes National Networking Forums website.
EXTOD Healthcare Professionals Regional Conference
Friday 9th May 2025, Village London Watford
This new, one day forum is created to equip Diabetologists, Diabetes Specialist Nurses, Dietitians and Paediatricians with the knowledge, inspiration, and practical understanding to support T1D patients who exercise.
EXTOD Adults with Type 1 Diabetes Conference
Saturday 10th May 2025, Village London Watford
Providing interactive tools, clinical cases, shared learning and problem/solution-based
tasks, this training day will support adults with diabetes who find exercise challenging.
Adding their unique perspectives, we are pleased to welcome our industry partners
Abbott’s Diabetes Care Division is committed to helping people manage their diabetes and achieve their best health outcomes with innovative technology, such as the FreeStyle Libre 2 system.
Medtronic innovate solutions that treat more than 70 health conditions, from Parkinson’s to diabetes. Their healthcare technologies transform the lives of two people every second.
Supporting over 40,000 people living with diabetes around the world, Air Liquide Healthcare is the authorised distributor of Tandem Diabetes Care’s innovative t:slim X2™ Insulin Pump. The latest version of the t:slim X2™ features Control-IQ™ - advanced hybrid closed-loop technology designed to help increase time in range.
Insulet Corporation, is an innovative medical device company dedicated to simplifying life for people with diabetes. The Omnipod DASH® System and in the future the Omnipod 5® System, are an alternative to traditional insulin delivery. With its simple, tubeless and waterproof* design, the Pod provides up to 3 days of continuous insulin delivery. *The Pod has a waterproof IP28 rating for up to 7.6 m for 60 min.
Why sponsor?
Our role at SBK Events is to bring industry together with healthcare professionals so that you can educate and inform your audience. These trail-blazing diabetes delivery forums offering dedicated presentation, Q&A, networking and discussion time, each sponsor will be full immersed into the event and able to effectively engage with your NHS audience.
Interested in having your own event, managed by us?
SBK Events also provides in-house forums. Working closely with you as the client we can research, produce, market and deliver the conference or online forum that best suits the audience and meets your goals.
Reach out today
If you would like more information on our sponsorship options an in-house forum or if you wish to discuss your needs and what solutions may be appropriate for your business, please contact:
Sarah Kemm
Contact: 01732 897788
Email: sarah.kemm@sbk-events.co.uk
Supported by:
SBK Healthcare would like to thank Breakthrough T1D for their continued support.
Breakthrough T1D, the leading global type 1 diabetes charity, works every day to help people live better with the condition, prevent people ever developing it and one day, find cures.