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Chronic Conditions Month 2025

Diabetes

Join us for a series of interactive webinars and podcasts to help you optimise care for people with chronic conditions

The agenda

Diabetes and the Liver

  • What is MASLD (formerly known as NAFLD)?
  • Screening and diagnosis in primary care
  • The relationship between MASLD and cardiovascular disease
  • Best practice in managing MASLD, and how to advise patients on lifestyle changes
  • Assessing a patient’s risk of fibrosis and knowing when to refer

All onboard? Addressing treatment non-adherence in the management of adults with type 2 diabetes 

  • The terminology, importance and challenges of treatment non-adherence in adults with type 2 diabetes
  • Why early intervention matters
  • Addressing treatment non-adherence from a system and clinical perspective
  • The role of patient engagement and treatment optimisation

 

This promotional symposium has been organised, funded and reviewed by Boehringer Ingelheim for UK healthcare professionals only.

Early Onset Type 2 Diabetes  

  • What is the significance of a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes in people under 40?
  • Approach to management of early-onset type 2 diabetes in primary care – including a case study
  • Ideas for Quality

The speakers

Hannah Beba

Consultant Pharmacist, Leeds CCG

Hannah Beba has recently taken up the post of Consultant Pharmacist at Leeds Clinical Commissioning Group. Hannah is Co-Chair of the United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association’s Diabetes and Endocrine Committee and sits on the Diabetes UK committee of healthcare professionals.

Hannah was a 2018 Diabetes UK clinical champion and is an associate lecturer at Newcastle University.

Hannah retains a predominantly clinical role and has been independently practicing in clinics for many years. Integrated care and how this might help deliver more holistic care to people living with diabetes closer to home is of great interest to her.

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Sarah Davies

GPwSI in Diabetes, Cardiff

Sarah is a GP in Cardiff with a special interest in diabetes. She qualified at the University of Wales College of Medicine in 2003 and initially trained as a physician, before making the move into general practice and never looked back! She has continued her interest in diabetes and presents regularly on the subject to colleagues at local and national meetings. She is passionate about general practice, particularly great quality diabetes care in the primary care setting.

She is the Clinical Director for Diabetes in primary care for Cardiff and Vale UHB and All Wales lead for diabetes in primary care. She is a Diabetes UK Clinical Champion, Primary Care Diabetes Society committee member and a presenter for NB Medical Hot Topics, leading their diabetes course.

Steve Holmes

GP, Shepton Mallet and Clinical Respiratory Lead, NHS England South West and NHS Somerset

Steve has been a GP partner since 1989 and continues working clinically 5 sessions per week. He is a passionate generalist – but has a respiratory specialist interest. Steve has worked nationally and internationally on respiratory issues – and has more than 200 publications on respiratory topics. He has been involved in national and international guidelines and has worked to promote good quality care for people with long term conditions. He works on educational issues in primary and secondary care – and has regular involvement with Asthma and Lung UK as well as more local patient groups in encouraging change in practice.

He has worked in service development since fundholding in the 1990s through many changes and remains passionate to make a difference.

Steve enjoys music, running, watching rugby and time spent with his wife and two daughters.

Dr Sarah Jarvis

GP and Medical Broadcaster

Sarah Jarvis trained at Cambridge and Oxford universities and became a partner in an inner-city general practice in 1990. She was a GP trainer for 25 years.

She is an active medical writer and broadcaster, and is the BBC Radio 2 doctor and the doctor to ITV lunchtime news. Besides these roles, she has been a regular contributor to a variety of medical journals including Update, Doctor, Practice Nurse and the British Journal of Cardiology. Dr Jarvis is past-chair of the Health Care Committee of HEART UK – the cholesterol charity, and is a member of the advisory board for the British Journal of Cardiology. Dr Jarvis has a particular interest in cardiovascular disease, diabetes and women’s health.

In 2019, Sarah was appointed MBE for services to general practice and public understanding of health. In 2021, she was appointed Visiting Professor of General Practice at the University of Huddersfield.

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