Diabetes Exchange Summit at The Royal Society, London
This summit took place on World Diabetes day, which is celebrated every year on the 14th November to engage people worldwide in diabetes advocacy and awareness. Barbara Young, the Chief Executive of Diabetes UK, reported some daunting figures:
She called for more effective health checks and intervention strategies and one of the discussion panels talked about how the NHS can implement preventive measures in the UK. There was also opportunity to hear about some of the succesful initiatives such as the Candem Diabetes Integrated Care Practice Unit. CCH will be developing a shortcourse, Living and Working with Diabetes, so look out for it on our website.
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This 3 day free Conference and Exhibition, sponsored by a variety of institutions, organisations and companies, was held at ExCel London recently.
Val Bullen, our Director of Education, went to the Thursday session to meet up with a speaker we had met at the Obesity Week Conference in Boston. Julie Meyer gave a talk on how Big Data can help inform nutritionists and dieticians in their work. The term ‘Big Data’ is being used a lot nowadays. It refers to the increasing amount of data that can be captured, communicated, aggregated, stored, and analysed for many purposes, mainly to inform business about their consumers. However it can also be used to inform clinical decisions such as monitoring dietary intake while in hospital. Following the talk, Val went to meet with Alacalc representatives to view their extensive programme that can be used to determine ingredients lists, recipes etc – very useful when attempting to create recipes for particular dietary requirements, as we will be doing in some of our short courses.
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