Nurses are world leaders with new support for children with diabetes

[Northerner]

Mena Gilbert and Joanne Titchen, pioneering children’s diabetes specialist nurses in Rochdale, are the first in the world to use a new insulin pump to help young people manage their condition.

The two Paediatric Diabetes Specialist Nurses, working within Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, worked closely with Roche Diabetes Care to use their new ‘Accu-Chek Insight’ insulin pumps with two 17-year-old service users, Ella Hodges and Hannah Kenton.

The pump includes an innovative touch screen remote control handset and newly developed prefilled insulin cartridges which aim to make administering insulin easier for the users.

Research shows using an insulin pump can help reduce instances of high blood sugars and associated hospital admissions.

http://www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/new...s-with-new-support-for-children-with-diabetes

 

[Redkite]

First in the world??? No they're not! It's just the Accuchek Insight

 

[Northerner]

First in the world??? No they're not! It's just the Accuchek Insight

I thought that, but it says they were given training and gave the pumps to those two girls 4 months before it was officially released, so they were the first to use that pump 🙂

 

[trophywench]

Ah - they do test new stuff on real patients before they release it into the wild you know! LOL Then any glitches they haven't spotted in the lab can be sorted out before the rest of us find em.

Sort of, the opposite of Windoze? LOL