Getting it right: Diabetes and Palliative Care

To support Healthcare Professionals in the management of diabetes in patients with advanced disease and patients with advanced diabetes who are at the end of life.

Updates on guidelines in diabetes with advanced disease and recent developments in treatments and technologies in diabetes.

Topics will include:

  • Tailoring therapies to minimise adverse effects of treatments

  • Steps to avoid diabetes related emergencies e.g. Hypoglycaemia and Hyperglyceamia

  • Avoiding symptomatic clinical dehydration

  • Diabetes medicine management at the end of life

  • Diabetes management during cancer treatments

  • National and local management guidelines

  • Integrating a palliative care approach in the care for a person with diabetes including steroids/assisted nutrition

Date: Monday 9th March 2020

Time: 9:30AM - 4:30PM

Location: Loros, Groby Road, LE3 9QE

Speaker highlights

Christina Faull Consultant in Palliative Medicine and LOROS Lead for Research and Medical Lead for Education opens the day with a welcome introduction for the event.

Christina was awarded an Honorary Professorship by De Montfort University in 2013 MBBS BMedSci MD FRCP PGCert Med Ed Dip Clin Hyp.

Christina leads the growing research activity at LOROS, developing projects, liaising with research colleagues in universities and other hospices and enabling patients and families to participate in research. She supervises colleagues undertaking research for higher degrees and makes sure that the findings are known locally, nationally and internationally so that patient care is improved.

Christina has worked as a consultant for 20 years and been at LOROS since 2003. She has served on the National Association for Palliative Medicine Executive Committee, chairing the Education Committee and sitting on the specialty committee of the Royal College of Physicians. She delivers teaching to the doctors and to a range of health and social care professionals studying the Masters degree and other programmes.

The Christie nurses will be delivering sessions on:

  • Guidelines for practice

  • Caring for the person with diabetes undergoing cancer treatments

  • Workshop: Effects on diabetes with steroids, immunotherapies and TPN

  • Case studies

  • Workshop: Technology in diabetes care

Louise Hopewell Diabetes Specialist Nurse SRN, RSCN, BSc (Hons), NMP, The Christie Hospital

Louise started work at the Christie Oncology Hospital in December 2014, her remit was to develop an in-patient diabetes service at the trust because 25% of patients have diabetes or are at risk of developing diabetes.

Louise is responsible for the management of outpatients with diabetes and those at risk of developing diabetes, this includes those attending for radiotherapy and chemotherapy who may develop poor glycaemic control.

Staff training and diabetes management education is an essential part of Louise’s role.

Louise has been a Diabetes Specialist Nurse (DSN) for 27 years and previously caring for children, young people and adults, as well as, women with diabetes in pregnancy, both pre-conceptually, in the antenatal and postnatal period.

Life outside of nursing is taken up with family, children, grandchildren and Louise’s precious VW Camper Van - Sage.

Susan Mason-Cave Diabetes Specialist Nurse, The Christie Foundation Trust

Susan has a unique role as a Diabetes Specialist Nurse at The Christie Foundation Trust, Manchester, a leading hospital for cancer research and cancer care based in Manchester.

Supporting people with diabetes undergoing cancer when diabetes management is affected by varying treatment regimes.

Also, supporting people experiencing hyperglycaemia occurring as a result of cancer treatments, as well as diabetes care at the end of life.

It is a role in which the challenges of cancer alongside diabetes management makes for some courageous clinical decision making.

Susan has been a Diabetes Specialist Nurse for 9 years, having had a long Midwifery career prior to this role.

Susan is a DSN Forum UK member and a Sanofi QIC Award winner 2018. 2 Spaniels keep her busy at home, and Susan loves a Parkrun every Saturday and an occasional 10k for a nice medal.

Julie petzing, eden and Sharon Densham, LOROS present on:

Stages of End of life Insulin pump support

Julie Petzing, Education and Research Associate, EDEN

Julie joined the team at the Leicester Diabetes Centre in 2018 and has been a Diabetes Specialist Nurse since 1990 with experience in primary care, community care, secondary care, general practice and industry.

Julie has a keen interest in educating healthcare professionals regarding diabetes and palliative/end of life care.

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