Outstanding individuals from the diabetes community were honoured for their contributions at the 14th annual Quality in Care (QiC) Diabetes Awards.
Roughly 100 people attended the ceremony, which took place on the evening of Thursday, October 31, at Sanofi’s UK headquarters in Reading.
QiC Diabetes recognises, rewards and shares innovative practice demonstrating quality in diabetes management, education and services for people with the condition and/or their families.
A QiC award means an initiative has been recognised by the NHS, people with diabetes and industry as improving the quality of life for individuals living with the condition.
Debbie Woods, Head of Medical General Medicines UK and Ireland Sanofi, said: “Sanofi is delighted to support the QiC Programme in 2024 and to recognise and reward the innovations that will benefit people living with diabetes.
“The QiC Programme is at the forefront of sharing best practice to improve the quality of care, through demonstrating novel solutions to problems encountered by healthcare professionals and those impacted by diabetes on a daily basis.”
She added: “Sanofi is proud to be the sponsor of QiC Diabetes and support this programme that is dedicated to recognise, share and reward excellence in diabetes care.”
Full list of winners:
| Type 1 Specialist Service |
| WINNER:
Dinky-Betes: A Dedicated Clinic for the Under 7’s by Leeds Children’s Hospital HIGHLY COMMENDED: Seeing the Whole Person: Piloting an integrative model of care at Sherwood Forest Hospital Young Adult Diabetes Service by Sherwood Forest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust HIGHLY COMMENDED: Community Large Group Roll-Out of Hybrid Closed-Loop Pump Therapy in Type 1 Diabetes by University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust |
| Equality, Diversity and Health Equalities |
| WINNER:
Overcoming Inequality in Access to Diabetes Technologies – Diabetes Intervention Worker Pilot by Somerset NHS Foundation Trust |
| Patient Care Pathway, Secondary, Primary, Specialist or Community Care |
| WINNER:
Barts Health Young Adult Diabetes (YAD) Service by Barts Health HIGHLY COMMENDED: HELENA (nortH East London preconception iN diabetes) Project by North-East London Integrated Care Board COMMENDED: Waiting Well Diabetes: A novel, dietetic-led approach to pre-surgical diabetes optimisation by Collaboration between North East and North Cumbria (NENC) ICS, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust COMMENDED: Diabetes and Frailty; Creating Holistic Care Using and MDT Approach to Integrate Primary, Community and Specialist care COMMENDED: A Novel Approach to Pre-operative Diabetes Optimisation in Cardiac Surgery to Improve HbA1c and Reduce Length of Stay in Hospital |
| Diabetes Education Programmes – Healthcare Professionals and People with Diabetes |
| HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL WINNER:
Operation DiaMED: Diabetes Matters in ED – Learning from patient safety incidents to improve insulin safety at the Front Door by Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL HIGHLY COMMENDED: Educate Diabetes – A new virtual diabetes training programme. Pilot for schools in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland by Heal.med in partnership with Leicester Children’s Diabetes Team HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL COMMENDED: Implementing Glucose Sensing in Primary Care by Eden, Leicester Diabetes Centre, University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust PEOPLE WITH DIABETES WINNER: “Equality and equity are two different things” Implementation and Evaluation of a Hybrid Educational Model for Automated Insulin Delivery Systems at Birmingham Children’s Hospital by Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Foundation Trust PEOPLE WITH DIABETES COMMENDED: An Innovative Mixed Media Footcare Video by Suffolk GP Federation |
| Wellbeing |
| WINNER:
Diabetes Care and Support for University Students by University of Essex & University Medical Centre |
| Improvements in Diabetes Care Using Data *New for 2024* |
| WINNER:
Integrated Diabetes Care for People with Advanced CKD: Clinical Research Programme (Dr Hellena Habte-Asres) by Royal Free London Foundation Trust HIGHLY COMMENDED: All Wales Diabetes Audit Plus Module by Dr Sarah Davies, GP, National Diabetes Strategic Network, Wales COMMENDED: Population Health Data Enable Collaboration to Improve Diabetes Care by CLCH |
| Peer Support |
| WINNER:
Camp for Adults with Type 1 Diabetes by League of Diabetes HIGHLY COMMENDED: Our Lives, Our Voices, Type 1 Young Persons Project |
| Sanofi Green Award |
| WINNER:
Dr Vincent Simpson and Dr Deepthi Lavu |
| Outstanding Educator in Diabetes |
| WINNER:
James Ridgeway |
| Insulin Safety Week Award |
| WINNER:
Wiltshire Health and Care Diabetes Specialist Team |
| Unsung Hero Award |
| WINNER:
James Ridgeway |
| Diabetes Professional of the Year |
| WINNER:
Dawn Ackroyd |
| The People’s Award |
| WINNER:
Daniel Newman |
| Judges’ Special Award |
| WINNER:
“Equality and equity are two different things” Implementation and Evaluation of a Hybrid Educational Model for Automated Insulin Delivery Systems at Birmingham Children’s Hospital |
| NHS Wales Outstanding Contribution Award for Services in Diabetes |
| WINNER:
Dr Sarah Davies |
| NHS England Outstanding Contribution Award for Services in Diabetes |
| WINNER:
Professor Partha Kar OBE and the NHSE HCL Team |
| The Lifetime Achievement Award |
| WINNER:
Simon O’Neill |
QiC Diabetes is partnered with Sanofi and supported by the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists (ABCD), Association of Children’s Diabetes Clinicians (ACDC), Children and Young People’s Diabetes Network (CYPDN) , the Diabetes Inpatient Specialist Nurse (DISN) UK Group, The Diabetes Specialist Nurse Forum (DSN) UK, Diabetes Research & Wellness Foundation (DRWF), Diabetes UK, JDRF the type 1 diabetes charity, Primary Care Diabetes Society (PCDS), Trend Diabetes, Young Diabetologists and Endocrinologists’ Forum (YDEF) and the United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association (UKCPA).
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