Practical Information for GPs Treating
Diabetes
30th November
2009
The Royal College of General Practitioners has
launched a new book as part of the GP curriculum to help doctors
treat the 2.6 million patients suffering from diabetes in the
UK.
Diabetes and Endocrine Disorders in
Primary Care by Professor Roger Gadsby, covers all the main
clinical areas in diabetes and endocrinology including obesity;
diagnosis of obesity; macrovascular and microvascular
complications; glycaemic control and the newer agents; ethnic and
psycho-social aspects of care; and structure of care.
The book will be of considerable value to
clinicians in secondary as well as primary care.
Dr Vinod Patel, who wrote the Foreword to the
book, said: “There is no doubt in my mind that this book will
become one of the most used resources for the management of
patients with diabetes and endocrine disorders in clinical
care. The real innovation in this particular book is to deal
with thyroid and some rarer endocrine disorders, including
pituitary disease. Roger thereby addresses a clinical
education need that is rarely tackled.”
The author, Professor Roger Gadsby, said:
“This book was written to give practical information about
both the rare and common metabolic problems encountered in general
practice with an emphasis on the common problem of diabetes. Case
scenarios relate the teaching to real people and situations seen
regularly in practice.”
Professor Steve Field, Chair of the RCGP,
said: “This is a superb, concise book, ideal for trainees study to
pass the MRCGP and also for GPs in practice as an update for their
CPD”.
Professor Gadsby is a GP and Associate
Clinical Professor at the University of Warwick where he has
developed training programmes in diabetes aimed at GPs and practice
nurses.
A founder member of the Primary Care Diabetes
Society, he is Clinical Lead for the diabetes specialist collection
for NHS Evidence (formerly known as the diabetes specialist library
for the National Library for Health). Professor Gadsby has been a
member of the guideline development groups for four of NICE's
clinical diabetes guidelines and for the IDF's global Type 2
diabetes guideline.
Diabetes and Endocrine Disorders in
Primary Care is available from the RCGP bookshop priced £24.95
RCGP Members and Fellows are entitled to a 10% discount.
Author: Roger Gadsby,
ISBN: 9780850843255, Pages: 134,
Publisher: RCGP, London
Published: Nov 2009
The title can be purchased now
from the RCGP Bookshop
FURTHER INFORMATION
RCGP Press office – 020 7344 3137
Out of hours: 07885 958 632
press@rcgp.org.uk
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