Paediatric Diabetes National Networking Forum

Paediatric Diabetes National Networking Forum
£49+VAT 5 CPD Hours
Holiday Inn London Bloomsbury, 5 CPD hours
Tue 5 Nov 2024 09:00-16:15

You asked and we listened… this is your dedicated paediatric diabetes conference, specially created to enable you to come together with your community  


This networking conference is packed full of accessible and practical presentations from knowledgeable and passionate speakers. In 5 CPD hours, you will gain a unique view on the innovative initiatives being implemented by your colleagues and useful updates on the newest technologies, leaving you inspired and motivated when you return to your clinical role. 


With thanks to our industry partners:


Discover how to improve the support you offer in your paediatric diabetes service at this powerful, engaging and informative NHS conference

Broaden your knowledge base and build your confidence through meaningful conversations and knowledgeable speakers presenting on: 


  • Type 2 diabetes in children and young people: guidance from diagnosis to management 
  • Developing your service in line with the new demands of Hybrid Closed Loop (HCL)
  • Improving your consultations and data reviews for CYP on HCL 
  • Starting Hybrid Closed Loop at diagnosis in paediatric services
  • Improving transition from paediatric to adult diabetes services 
  • Implementing and optimising the role of youth workers in diabetes care 
  • Supporting children and young people with the psychological implications of diabetes

Plus insight from our industry partners

Invitation to sponsor

This interactive event is a great opportunity for providers of diabetes technology and treatments to support healthcare professionals. If you sponsor this forum, you will be a fundamental part of the agenda, moderating the discussions, presenting in the dedicated ‘industry partners showcase’ plus exhibiting and networking during the break times. To find out more about all the engagement and branding opportunities available in the full sponsorship package, please email Sarah Kemm or call Sarah on 01732 897788.


9:00
Registration, networking and refreshments
9:30
Chair’s opening remarks
Dr Fulya Mehta, Children and Young People Diabetes Lead, NHS England and Consultant Paediatrician, Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
Paediatric Type 2 Diabetes
9:40
How to effectively manage Type 2 diabetes in children and young people
  • Guidance and recommendations for diagnosis and management of Type 2 in CYP
  • Exploring the benefits and realities of using CGM to manage Type 2 diabetes in children
  • Case studies: real-world examples of Type 2 in children and young people and the lessons learnt to improve their care
Dr Martha Ford-Adams, Clinical Lead, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Hybrid Closed Loop
10:05
Evolving your service: creating an MDT approach to Hybrid Closed Loop on-boarding
  • Discover how your service can evolve to accommodate and embrace the change
  • Achieving a collaborative service-led approach: engaging and involving the wider team
  • Meeting the demand on your service: strategies and approaches explored
John Pemberton, Diabetes Specialist Dietitian, Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
10:30
Questions and answers with your speakers
10:40
Industry partners showcase: Progression in diabetes care

At this point you will be split into groups to rotate around the industry partner presentations.

Advanced Therapeutics (UK) Ltd, Air Liquide, mylife Diabetescare
11:15
Networking break
11:35
Optimising data reviews for children and young people using Hybrid Closed Loop
  • Practical approaches to improving your HCL consultation and data review
  • Navigating person specific considerations and adjusting system settings to achieve time in range
  • Case studies: managing difficult scenarios with Hybrid Closed Loop
Dr Fiona Regan, Paediatric Endocrine and Diabetes Consultant, Evelina London Children's Hospital, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
12:00
Starting newly diagnosed children with Type 1 diabetes on Hybrid Closed Loop
  • Exploring the benefit and practicalities of on-boarding children at diagnosis
  • Navigating how this works in practice for your team
  • Measuring the outcomes on team capacity and diabetes management: solidifying the approach going forward
Rebecca Martin, Nurse Consultant for Paediatric and Adolescent Diabetes, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
12:25
Questions and answers with your speaker
12:35
Networking lunch
1:30
Interactive discussion: Benchmark your approach to optimising settings: improving clinical outcomes in CYP
  • Share your experience of data reviews with children and young people on HCL
  • How do you optimise their settings to improve control?
  • What challenges have you faced and how did you overcome them?
1:45
Feedback from interactive discussion: Benchmark your approach to optimising settings: improving clinical outcomes in CYP
Transition and adolescent diabetes support
1:55
Providing safe support and guidance for young adults: improving diabetes transition services
  • Exploring nuances, challenges and solutions for young people with diabetes technology during transition to adult care
  • Emerging learnings from the National Transition and Young Adult Pilot Programme
Dr Reza Zaidi, Consultant Diabetologist and Lead for the Young Adult and Transition, Royal Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
2:20
Developing and growing your team: incorporating youth support workers into your diabetes service
  • Best practice guide to expanding your service: benefits and practicalities explored
  • Understanding the impact of youth support workers: outcomes for your service, adolescents and parents/carers
  • Navigating the dynamics of including youth support workers in diabetes care for CYP
Darren Meade, Youth Worker, Paediatric and Young Adult Diabetes Team, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
2:45
Questions and answers with your speakers
2:55
Networking break
3:15
Interactive discussion: Empowering adolescents during their transition into adult services
  • Share your experience of supporting young people during their transition
  • What are the main challenges you see in your area? How are you working to overcome them?
  • What initiatives have you implemented that have been successful?
3:30
Feedback from interactive discussion: Empowering adolescents during their transition into adult services
Psychological interventions
3:40
Supporting your patients with the psychological impact of diabetes and diabetes technology
  • Navigating the psychological challenges for children and young people living with diabetes and using technology
  • Providing psychological support within your diabetes consultations and implementing structured psychological support
  • Case studies explored: overcoming the challenges to improve psychological and diabetes related outcomes
Anna East, Clinical Psychologist, Diabetes, Barts Health NHS Trust
4:05
Questions and answers with your speakers
4:15
Chair’s closing remarks and close of day

Call for speakers

If you would like to give a presentation and share your work or the work of your service at this online course, we would be delighted to hear from you. 


To discuss speaking opportunities please email the conference producer Hope Frost or call Hope on 01732 897788.


Your confirmed speakers:

Dr Fulya Mehta

Children and Young People Diabetes Lead, Consultant Paediatrician
NHS England, Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
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Dr Martha Ford-Adams

Clinical Lead
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

John Pemberton

Diabetes Specialist Dietitian
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
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Dr Fiona Regan

Paediatric Endocrine and Diabetes Consultant
Evelina London Children's Hospital, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
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Rebecca Martin

Nurse Consultant for Paediatric and Adolescent Diabetes
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Reza Zaidi

Consultant Diabetologist and Lead for the Young Adult and Transition
Royal Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Darren Meade

Youth Worker, Paediatric and Young Adult Diabetes Team
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Anna East

Clinical Psychologist, Diabetes
Barts Health NHS Trust

A one day conference dedicated to learning and networking

This is the first dedicated face-to-face Paediatric Diabetes National Networking Forum in 5 years! Please don’t miss out on this best practice driven day which has been specially created to bring Paediatric Diabetes Professionals together and drill into the detail of improving the management of Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes in children and young people. 


Attend this invaluable event and you will be joined by:

  • Paediatric Specialist Nurses 
  • Paediatric Dietitians
  • Paediatric Diabetes Specialists 
  • Youth Workers 
  • Transition Nurses 
  • Registrars 
  • Professors 
  • GPs
  • Practice Nurses
  • Pharmacists 
  • Psychologists

Attendee feedback

Calling all paediatric diabetes healthcare professionals! Take a look at how attendees have previously described our conferences and what you can expect from attending:  

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'Very well executed by the SBK team. Really interesting and information'
- University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
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'Great day, sharing ideas and experience with other teams'
- United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
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'Amazing conference, really well organised and very useful relevant information'
- Gibraltar Health Authority
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'Extremely well organised. Excellent content and informative presentations'
- Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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'Very valuable and lots to take back to our service'
- Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
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'Wonderful experience – a lot of learning opportunities'
- Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust
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'Fantastic. Lots of hands-on experience shared'
- Wye Valley NHS Trust
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'Very informative. Knowledgeable speakers with a passion for improving diabetes care'
- North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust
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'Well organised day. Excellent speakers and very useful sessions'
- University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
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'Very interesting with lots of ideas and good networking'
- University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
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'I had a lovely first experience of attending a meeting arranged by SBK Healthcare'
- Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
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'Excellent event with lots of very useful information and discussions'
- University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Pricing structure

  • £49+VAT - one NHS or Public Sector Place

SBK Healthcare is pleased to offer the special attendance fee of £49+VAT to all NHS professionals. If you are in a situation where you do not have the funding, but would like to attend, please do contact Sophie Richardson on 01732 897788.


Commercial companies are invited to sponsor this day please email Sarah Kemm for further details.


Venue details

Venue name: Holiday Inn London Bloomsbury

Address: Coram Street, London WC1N 1HT

Tel: 0871 942 9222

Email: reservations@hibloomsbury.co.uk

Holiday Inn London Bloomsbury is situated near Russell Square Tube station on the Piccadilly Line and is close to major transport hubs such as Kings Cross St Pancras station and Euston station, both of which are less than a mile away and reachable in five minutes by bus or taxi. You can also drive to Heathrow Airport (LHR) in 40 minutes.

DirectionsClick here to plan your journey using Google Maps

Accommodation suggestions: You can book your bedroom directly with the hotel using the above contact details (SBK Healthcare does not facilitate accommodation bookings). The venue is centrally located and there are a number of alternative places to stay. Availability for alternative accommodation can be identified by searching online, for example www.trivago.co.uk or www.uk.hotels.com and inputting the address and date of your visit.

What happens after you make your booking?

Once you have booked your place, SBK Healthcare will correspond with you using the email address you provided at the time of booking and you will be sent a formal confirmation. If you have not received this within 48 hours of making your booking please check your junk folder and then email bookings@sbk-healthcare.co.uk or call 01732 897788.


Approximately one week prior to the conference you will be sent an email which will include all the final details for attendance on the day, including a final agenda and venue information. 


Please inform us by writing to bookings@sbk-healthcare.co.uk if you have any special dietary or other requirements.

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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Adding their unique perspectives, we are pleased to welcome our industry partners


The ACE (Alternate Controller Enabled) Dana-I Insulin Pump offered by ATUK, features the unique ability to securely connect to a smartphone via ultra-low energy Bluetooth to facilitate fast and reliable insulin management via the user or artificial pancreas algorithm.


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.


mylife Loop is an automated insulin delivery system that runs from your smartphone, linking the mylife YpsoPump insulin pump, the mylife CamAPS FX algorithm and the choice of either the Dexcom G6 or FreeStyle Libre 3 Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) System. mylife Loop is the only HCL system licenced for use in pregnancy and in people aged 1 and over.

Why sponsor a Diabetes National Networking Forum

Our role at SBK Healthcare 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.

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‘Always a pleasure to attend an SBK event! Great staff, great organisation and always well attended by industry and HCPs’.
- Air Liquide, Diabetes Developments National Networking Forum, Belfast
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'Brilliant event that gives clinicians and industry the opportunity to discuss current ‘hot topics’ together, collaboratively.'
- Menarini, Diabetes Developments National Networking Forum, Birmingham
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'Given a great opportunity to reach out to people who we would not normally have access to.'
- Lilly, Diabetes Developments National Networking Forum, Birmingham

Interested in having your own event, managed by us?

SBK Healthcare 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-healthcare.co.uk


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