Excellence Award for our Diabetes Specialist Nursing Teams
Our Diabetes Specialist Nursing (DSN) Teams across the Trust have been awarded with the National Hypo Awareness Week 2023 Excellence Award.
The award celebrates innovative work in the education and management of hypoglycaemia and was accepted at the Quality in Care (QIC) Diabetes Awards on Thursday 12 October 2023 by members of the team after their annual drive for the Hypo Awareness Week back in September.
The team at Peterborough City Hospital did lots of promotion throughout the hospital as well as developing hypo awareness packs for the ward areas. The Paediatric DSN team at Peterborough visited the children’s wards with ‘hypo goggles’ and lots of activities for the staff to improve their understanding of how hypoglycaemia impacts children and young people with diabetes.
The ward areas at Hinchingbrooke welcomed visits from the team to highlight the importance of managing hypoglycaemia in an appropriate and timely fashion by dressing as hypo treatments – a blood glucose meter, carton of orange juice, IV glucose, an insulin pump and even a slice of toast! And the Diabetes in Pregnancy team sported designer t-shirts promoting the understanding of symptoms, treatments and management of hypoglycaemia in pregnancy.
Janet Collins, Lead Nurse Diabetes at the Trust said:
“I am incredibly proud of all the DSN teams who wholeheartedly threw themselves into the Hypo Awareness Week Campaign this year. They came up with innovative and entertaining ways of promoting the importance of managing hypoglycaemia safely.
“They have gone above and beyond all expectations to create a fun and informative campaign.”