Practical guidance to improve diabetes care before, during and after surgery
This case-based online workshop will guide you through the perioperative pathway, from preparing people with diabetes for surgery and making safe treatment decisions during hospital admission to managing postoperative complications and planning discharge.
Develop your clinical knowledge
How to improve diabetes management throughout surgery and hospital admission
Whether you are preparing patients for surgery, supporting diabetes management during hospital admission or advising on postoperative care, this applied workshop will help you navigate the clinical decisions and challenges involved in delivering safe diabetes care.
Key learning outcomes include:
- Optimising diabetes before surgery, including perioperative risks, treatment decisions and preparation for procedures
- Getting diabetes management right from admission, including preventing complications, monitoring and safe handover
- Working through preoperative case studies to determine whether patients are ready for surgery
- Managing insulin and diabetes technology safely during surgery and hospital admission
- Exploring postoperative case studies to respond to complications, restart treatment and plan safe discharge
- Identifying practical changes to improve perioperative and inpatient diabetes care in your own service
Live online learning
Interactive discussions and practical case-study based content
This engaging online workshop combines real-world presentations, facilitated discussions and patient case studies to help you apply the learning directly to your own clinical practice.
Throughout the day you will have the opportunity to:
- Learn from David Jones, an experienced Diabetes Specialist Nurse from Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Join NHS colleagues from across the UK involved in perioperative and inpatient diabetes care
- Take part in interactive discussions exploring preoperative optimisation, fasting, insulin management and postoperative complications
- Ask questions and explore approaches to challenging clinical decisions with the workshop leader
- Reflect on your own clinical practice and identify opportunities to improve patient safety
In-house training
Available as a bespoke course for organisations wishing to strengthen perioperative and inpatient diabetes care. The workshop can be tailored to reflect your local clinical pathways, staff training needs and organisational priorities. Please email Sarah Kemm or call 01732 897788 to discuss delivering this workshop exclusively for your organisation.
| 9.00 |
Registration and networking
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| 9.30 |
Workshop leader’s introduction
David Jones, Diabetes Specialist Nurse, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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| Surgery and procedures | |
| 9.40 |
Optimisation: Preparing people with diabetes for surgery
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| 10.40 |
Questions and answers with David Jones
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| 10.50 |
Screen break
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| Safe inpatient care | |
| 11.00 |
Getting diabetes management right from admission
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| 11.40 |
Questions and answers with David Jones
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| Preoperative optimisation: case studies | |
| 11.50 |
Interactive case study discussion: Is this patient ready for surgery?
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| 12.40 |
Networking lunch
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| Technology decisions | |
| 1.20 |
Managing insulin and diabetes technology during surgery and hospital admission
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| 2.10 |
Questions and answers with David Jones
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| 2.20 |
Screen break
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| Postoperative care: case studies | |
| 2.30 |
Interactive case studies: After surgery—what would you do next?
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| Next steps | |
| 3.20 |
From learning to practice: What will you do differently?
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| 3.30 |
Close of workshop
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Your workshop leader
Learn from an experienced NHS Diabetes Specialist Nurse with expertise in perioperative care
David Jones brings around 15 years' experience in diabetes care across primary and secondary care. He will draw on his clinical experience and quality improvement work in preoperative diabetes optimisation to explore the practical decisions, risks and challenges involved in caring for people with diabetes throughout the surgical pathway.
David Jones
Diabetes Specialist Nurse
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Pricing Structure
- £299+VAT early bird (£50 off) NHS or public sector places when booked before Friday 8th January 2027
- £349+VAT full price for one NHS or public sector place
- £299+VAT colleague rate (£50 off) each NHS or public sector when booking 2-3 places
- Fourth place FREE: team offer when you book 3 places at full price
Discount policy: Only one offer applies per booking
This course is available for in-house training
Available as a bespoke workshop to teams of 25 or more people. Please do contact us if you would like this course delivered exclusively to your team, with the content developed to drill into the specific needs of your service. Please email Sarah Kemm or call 01732 897788 for further details.
Commercial companies are also invited to sponsor this day. Please email Vanessa Jarman for further details.
You can reserve a no-obligation place whilst you apply for funding
If your funding has not yet been secured or you would like to hold your place with no obligation whilst waiting for your study leave to be approved, you can reserve your place with us. Please email the reservations team at SBK Healthcare with your details:
- Booking contact: name, job title, department, email and telephone number
- Event(s) to reserve for: title and date
- Delegate details (for each delegate): name, job title, department, email and telephone number
- Organisation details: name and address
Alternatively you can make a confirmed booking by emailing the above information to the bookings team
Once you have booked your place, SBK Healthcare will correspond with you using the email address you provided at the time of booking. Within one week of the online conference taking place, you will be sent final details of the course including a full agenda, programme timings and your Zoom joining instructions. This email will include a joining link that can be used to access the conference.
If you have not received your email two days before your event, do check your junk folder then contact SBK Healthcare on 01732 897788.
Practice sessions are available and you will be sent an invitation to join one of our delegate practice sessions. These are optional but great if you are unsure of whether your camera and microphone will work on Zoom. We hold several one hour practice sessions across the week when a member of SBK Healthcare staff will be waiting in Zoom to assist you. Please do pop in, say hello and make sure you are all set for the day.
On the day, when registration starts, you will be able to join the conference by initially entering a waiting room when there may be a short wait. In groups of between 6-10 people, you will be admitted into the main conference room to be greeted by a member of SBK staff. In the same group you will be taken into a breakout room and asked to turn on your video and microphone. A member of the SBK team will get your group started with some orientation tasks and ‘ice breaker’ topics, before leaving you to network.
When you are automatically brought back into the conference room for the start of the conference, you will be asked to turn off your camera and microphone so that the chair can start the forum. During each presentation you will be able to ask questions in the chat box function. The forum will include screen breaks, as well as topic themed interactive sessions which will take place in the breakout rooms.
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Certification of attendance
A certificate for Continuing Professional Development will be given to every fully registered participant who completes the course, as a record of your continuing professional training and development.
Registration fees
You will be sent an instant payment option or invoice on registration. Your payment is required in advance. If your fee has not been received prior to the event, and you are not able to provide a PO or proof of payment, you will be asked to make a credit or debit card payment on the day.
Modify registration
To let us know if your details are not correct when you have already registered, please email the bookings team.
Cancellations and substitutions
A full refund of fees will be made only for cancellations received within the first 48 hours of the booking being made. Notice of cancellation must be received in writing by emailing the bookings team at SBK Healthcare. Should you need to cancel your registration after this date, the registration fee remains payable in its entirety although a substitution will be accepted and conference documentation will be provided. Substitution attendees for delegates unable to attend after registering are acceptable at any time.
Event changes
It may be necessary for reasons beyond the control of the conference organisers to alter the content, speakers or the timing of the programme. We will endeavour to keep you abreast of such changes but any unavoidable change to the format will not constitute a reason to refund the fee. Should the event be postponed, we will endeavour to reschedule the event. If, for reasons beyond the control of the conference organiser, the event is cancelled, a full refund will be made. We do not accept any liability for any incurred costs resulting from a postponement or cancellation.
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Who should attend?
Connect with NHS colleagues involved in perioperative and inpatient diabetes care
This workshop is designed for healthcare professionals who support people with diabetes before, during and after surgery. It will be particularly valuable for members of diabetes teams involved in preoperative optimisation, inpatient diabetes management, insulin and diabetes technology decisions, and safe discharge planning.
Designed for:
- Diabetes Specialist Nurses and Inpatient Diabetes Specialist Nurses
- Consultant Diabetologists and Consultant Physicians working in diabetes
- Diabetes Pharmacists
- Diabetes Dietitians
- Preoperative Assessment and Perioperative Nurses
If you have a team that is 25 people or more, you can have a bespoke workshop delivered online to your team alone. Please contact Sarah Kemm or telephone 01732 897788.
Past attendee feedback
You asked and we delivered! With an increase in requests for further training and development courses focusing on perioperative and inpatient diabetes care, this workshop was specially designed to meet your needs. Take a look at how much past attendees have enjoyed our diabetes training.
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Why sponsor?
Our role at SBK Healthcare is to bring industry together with healthcare professionals so that you can educate and inform your audience. These trail-blazing webinars, conferences and courses offer dedicated presentation, Q&A, networking and discussion time, each sponsor will be fully immersed into the event and able to effectively engage with your NHS audience.
Your event, managed by us
SBK Healthcare also provides in-house forums. Working closely with you as the client we can research, produce, market and deliver the conference or online forum that best suits the audience and meets your goals.
Reach out today
If you would like more information on our sponsorship options, in-house forums or if you wish to discuss your needs and what solutions may be appropriate for your business, please contact:
Vanessa Jarman
Telephone: 01732 897788
Email: vanessa.jarman@sbk-healthcare.co.uk