Diabetes: Improving Health Outcomes CPD Level 6

Overview

The UK is seeing an explosion of diabetes, linked to growing obesity rates.

This credit-bearing course, which is taught at our West London and Reading campuses, aims to enable healthcare professionals to gain knowledge and skills in:

• Prevention, early detection and screening in diabetes

• Clinical presentation and management in diabetes (including diabetic ketoacidosis)

• Self-management in diabetes

• Insulin management

• Diabetes and obesity

• Importance of interprofessional working to enhance health outcomes and patient experience.

Course requirements: Evidence of study at Level 5 (Diploma Level).

Assessment method: OSCE 40% and Case Presentation 60%

The course will focus on:

• Epidemiology of diabetes mellitus and anatomy

• Physiology and disordered physiology

• Pharmacology of type 1 and 2 diabetes

• Investigations (screening tools), diagnosis and management of diabetes

• Blood glucose monitoring and insulin therapy and management

• Management of diabetic ketoacidosis

• NICE guidelines, local guidelines

• National service frameworks for diabetes and its implementation

• Complications of diabetes and their prevention, including cardiovascular disease, neuropathy, eye disease, and sexual health

• Wound management and the diabetic foot

• Psychological and socio-cultural issues in diabetes

• Health promotion in diabetes including behaviour change and motivational interviewing

• Self-management and family members/carers support in the delivery of diabetes care

• Medical nutrition therapy and physical activity

• Diabetes across the lifespan (children/young people, in pregnancy, elderly)

• Impact of obesity and strategies to prevent the onset of diabetes

• Future trends in diabetes management - new and advanced therapies

• Inter-professional collaboration in diabetes management and the expert patient's perspectives of diabetes

• New and advanced therapies in diabetes.