A Barking and Dagenham GP has been appointed as Diabetes UK champion for her contribution to improving diabetes care. Dr Anju Gupta, clinical director and diabetes clinical lead for B&D CCG, will seek to ensure ‘best practice diabetes care’ from across the UK is implemented locally. She said her aim was to empower patients with easier access to structured diabetes education, and to continue to improve diabetes care in the borough which had improved substantially in the last few years.
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Dr Anne Baldwin has been offered, and has accepted the role of NEL Diabetes Prevention Programme Clinical lead. The initial focus will be within the BHR system and will extend into the wider NEL. Dr Baldwin will work with practices to drive up use of the programme.
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