ABCD Webinar: Non-attendance at diabetes healthcare appointments - what are we missing?
In the first of the 2023 ABCD webinar series, please join Dr. Sarah Brewster to discuss ‘Non-attendance at diabetes healthcare appointments - what are we missing?’
This session will discuss how non-attendance at the diabetes annual review and specialist diabetes clinics is a significant issue, associated with worse outcomes for those living with diabetes. Dr Brewster will discuss the limitations in how non-attendance is quantified, the complexity of non-attendance behaviour and the paucity and limitations of available research on the topic. She will talk through some of the recognised determinants and factors associated with the behaviour, but stresses the importance of ongoing audit, research and development of services to better understand how healthcare can adapt to meet the needs of this group of patients who may be more susceptible to the deleterious effects of diabetes.
Q& A will follow this presentation
RCP Accreditation has been sought for this webinar. Certificates of attendance will be issued to those who attend the live webinar.
As a consultant diabetologist I offer consultant clinics for people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, I participate in the education of patients with diabetes and I am a supervisor for junior doctors in training. I am the lead for diabetes research for Southern Health foundation trust and the joint lead for diabetes at the Wessex clinical research network, which aims to increase access to research for people with diabetes living in Wessex. As part of this I am a supervisor for PhD students. Our research is based around the interface between mental and physical illness, delivery of care in community settings, and improving access to diabetes care and technology. I won the NIHR/RCP national award for outstanding leadership in research in 2021. I have presented research nationally and internationally and published research in peer reviewed journals. I am the Principal Investigator for all commercial diabetes activity in Southern Health. I am the joint Trainee Programme Director for Diabetes and Endocrinology in Wessex. I am an Honorary senior lecturer at the University of Southampton
