EXTOD Healthcare Professionals National Conference 2025

EXTOD Healthcare Professionals National Conference 2025
Hilton Liverpool City Centre
Mon 24 Nov 2025 09:00-17:00

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 Events. 


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.

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. The price to attend this conference is £285+VAT - two day full price for consultants and registrars or £195+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.

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:

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A really informative day with lots to think about in terms of giving options to patients
- North Cumbria Integrated Care
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Very well formulated day, which supported learning and retention of information
- Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
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I learnt a tremendous amount, I feel more confident about dealing with T1DM and exercise
- James Paget University Hospital NHS Trust


We are currently in the process of developing the full agenda for 2025 alongside the EXTOD faculty.

To be the first to receive the programme when it is completed, please reserve a place using the button above.



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:

Professor Rob Andrews

Associate Professor, University of Exeter and Honorary Consultant Physician
University of Exeter

Professor Parth Narendran

Diabetes Research Unit and the Type 1 Diabetes Clinical Service Lead
University of Birmingham and The Queen Elizabeth Hospital

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

Anne Marie Frohock

Lead Paediatric Diabetes Dietitian
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Alistair Lumb

Consultant in Diabetes and Acute General Medicine
OCDEM, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Manyee Li

Specialist Dietitian (Diabetes/Sport & Exercise Medicine)
Queen Elizabeth Hospital (University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust)

John Pemberton

Diabetes Dietitian
Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Francesca Annan

Lead Paediatric Diabetes Dietitian
University College London Hospital's 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
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Chris Bright

Community Partnerships and Events Lead
Breakthrough T1D
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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:

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“Great conference, really useful general tips with useful overview of latest research and inspirational speakers. Really appreciated the signposting to available resources”
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“Really good content and informative. Good mix of lecture and workshop”
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“I loved the workshops as opportunities to practice what we had learnt in the lectures. These were great and well run”
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“Excellent content, found it really interesting and have learnt so much”
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“Excellent sessions, a lot packed in and learnt a lot and very inspired by the speakers!!”
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“Speakers were inspiring, extremely knowledgeable and great at sharing their enthusiasm and learning”
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“An excellent meeting. My understanding and management of issues around exercise has improved”
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“Great presentations and workshops. Speakers were happy to answer questions, interact with participants”
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Upcoming events:

These events are delivered by EXTOD, organised by SBK Events 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. 



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.