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Award spotlight:
Bedfordshire Hospitals
NHS Foundation Trust
Luton and Dunstable
Diabetes teams at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation
Trust Luton and Dunstable received the 2022 QiC Insulin
Safety Week Excellence Award for its "interactive" insulin
safety campaign.
During the week-long campaign, the team organized
games and quizzes to raise awareness amongst healthcare
professionals of ways to identify, avoid and reduce insulin
errors. There were also educational sessions and seminars by
diabetes specialist nurses, and the team even performed a song
dedicated to Insulin Safety Week to the soundtrack of Abba's
Mamma Mia.
Dr Shiu-Ching Soo, clinical director in Diabetes and
Endocrinology at Luton and Dunstable Hospital, stressed that
insulin safety was a priority way beyond Insulin Safety Week:
"The entire diabetes team at our hospital has worked tirelessly
throughout the year to promote insulin safety. Behind the
scenes, the team focuses working with pharmacists and
IT to design systems to reduce insulin errors and improve
patient outcomes."
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Award
spotlight:
Lochlan
Murdoch
A 13-year-old boy from Ayrshire won
the 2022 QiC People's Award after he
set up a charity to raise awareness of
diabetes in football.
A player with Bonnyton Thistle,
Lochlan was diagnosed with Type 1
diabetes aged four but it hasn't been
a barrier to his participation in sport.
He wanted to get that message across
to other players and coaches and set
up Lochlan's Legacy to promote it. He
said: "It doesn't matter - you can do
anything you want. I was worried that
coaches might not let me play because
they might get scared of what might
happen to me or panic and not want
me around."
He walked around every stadium in
Scotland as part of his first fundraiser
for the charity.