The UK’s leading free, CPD-accredited diabetes conference aims to improve the standard of diabetes care through a series of panel sessions, aimed at the entire diabetes multi-disciplinary team (MDT).
The NHS Five Year Forward View (FYFV) emphasises the need to dissolve the traditional boundaries between primary care, community services and hospitals, recognising that this traditional divide is increasingly a barrier to the personalised and coordinated health services people need.
The Diabetes Professional Care (DPC) conference, held on 29 and 30 October, will feature an increased emphasis on joint working and integrated care across all therapy areas, to improve outcomes and prevent avoidable complications.
Exclusive MDT Panel session highlights include:
The multi-track conference also features nine main conference theatres and seven workshop-style theatres (including five new comorbidity clinics), each with CPD-accredited content targeted at Primary, Secondary and Specialist Care.
New to the 2019 show, the comorbidity clinics will focus on sharing best practice and real-world learning in key areas of diabetes care, covering basic knowledge through to advanced care. There is a two-day clinic programme for the follow areas of care: Cardiovascular; Eye; Kidney; Mental Health & Wellbeing; and Nutrition & Lifestyle.
DPC2019 will also see the return of the DPC Workshop, Foot & Wound Clinic and Hypo Hub & Simulator.
Working together for better outcomes
DPC Founder, Maggie Meer, said, “We understand the value of the care that every healthcare professional, carer, commissioner and service lead is provides when preventing, treating and managing diabetes, and its related conditions.
“With each role comes a unique set of challenges and we’ve worked hard to design a programme that meets the education needs of everyone in this area of care, from latest clinical updates and research, early identification and prevention of complications, consultation skills, best practice injection technique, and so on.
“By working together, we can improve the lives of people with diabetes through individualised, person-centred care, improve outcomes, and reduce complications.”
Maggie Meer and the DPC Team have based the fifth annual conference programme, on the feedback received from their attendees and the expertise of a world-class conference steering panel.
This, as well as the support from a selection of high calibre event partners has be instrumental in the development of an agenda which tackles the most pressing issues in diabetes care from practical, hands-on approach.
DPC Event Partners, who will each be contributing to the main conference agenda include: NHS Diabetes Programme; Association of British Clinical Diabetologists (ABCD); RCGP; RCNi; BDA; PCCS; and British Renal Society.
Dr Dinesh Nagi, Chairman of ABCD said, “It felt like DPC was the perfect fit as it has successfully delivered vital CPD-accredited education for healthcare professionals in diabetes care. This is clear from the way it has grown year-on-year.
“We should all have one major objective and that’s to work together to benefit people with diabetes. I can’t think of a better way to do this than to come together at the largest, free-to-attend diabetes conference in the country.”
All healthcare professionals, commissioners and service leads can attend DPC2019 at London, Olympia on 29 & 30 October free of charge.
Registrations can be completed online or via phone on 023 8081 1551.
