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Diabetes UK was founded in 1934 as The Diabetic Association, by the author H. G. Wells and Robert Daniel Lawrence. [2] Diabetes UK's first research grant was made in 1936. [3] The organisation has since had two name changes—in 1954 to The British Diabetic Association and again in June 2000 to Diabetes UK. [2] [4] [5]
Since its establishment it developed several evidence-based guidelines or wherever possible expert consensus to drive quality of inpatient diabetes care. [3] [4] The guidelines have been widely used across the UK and helped reduce variations by standardising approach to inpatient diabetes care. [1] Hypoglycaemia [5]
The Association of NHS Charities, operating as NHS Charities Together, is a network of over 230 charitable organisations that support the devolved National Health Service (NHS), their staff, patients, and communities in the United Kingdom.
Diabetes.co.uk was founded in 2003, by Arjun Panesar after his grandfather was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. [3]In March 2014, Diabetes.co.uk launched the hashtag #BloodSugarSelfie to raise awareness for diabetes through people posting selfies with their blood glucose readings.
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Robert "Robin" Daniel Lawrence (18 November 1892 – 27 August 1968) was a British physician at King’s College Hospital, London. He was diagnosed with diabetes in 1920 and became an early recipient of insulin injections in the UK in 1923.