Dr Hannah Young, Specialist Research Physiotherapist is the recipient of the 2025 Donna Lamping Award

The University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (UHL) Inpatient Diabetes Training team, in partnership with the Leicester Diabetes Centre’s EDEN team, has launched an enhanced version of the ITS Insulin Safety for Hospital Staff e-learning module (ITS2.0). This free resource helps NHS Trusts improve insulin safety and diabetes care for hospitalised adults.

Laura Willcocks, Assistant Director for Integration, Education, and Innovation, and Alison Northern, LDC Implementation Lead, who develop and deliver staff training programmes, explain why staff development at LDC is so important.

Paul is one of over 100 people in England participating in the MiFoot study. He shared his experience of taking part in research at the LDC

We are incredibly proud to announce that the Co-Director of Leicester Diabetes Centre (LDC), Professor Melanie Davies CBE, has been chosen to receive a 2025 National Scientific and Health Care Achievement Award from the American Diabetes Association (ADA).

New research shows that Type 2 diabetic patients benefit from continuous glucose monitoring technology (CGM) to improve their care but do not receive this due to lack of training.  

Physical activity professionals and diabetes specialists from the Leicester Diabetes Centre (LDC) and the University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust have established a new Diabetes UK (DUK) Professional Interest Network (PIN) group.

A healthy eating and physical activity programme created with, and for, people of African and Caribbean heritage living with type 2 diabetes in London is now seeking volunteers to test its effectiveness around the UK.

The Leicester Diabetes Centre (LDC), Loughborough University and UK logistics company, Wincanton’s health promotion programme ‘Structured Health Intervention for Truckers’ (SHIFT), has been shortlisted for an award.

The University of Leicester and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to drive forward groundbreaking health research.

A recent publication in Diabetic Medicine features significant contributions from Professor Samuel Seidu and James Ridgeway.

The Leicester Diabetes Centre (LDC) welcomed Professor of Diabetes and Endocrinology Sharad Taheri this autumn.

Over half of pregnant women with Gestational Diabetes are not being diagnosed with the current NHS blood test process

An international award-winning professor, and Co-Director of LDC, has been selected to deliver a prestigious national lecture in recognition of his research on ethnic minority populations.

The festive season is here! While it’s a time for joy, celebration, and indulging in delicious treats, it’s also a time when many of us become less active. But what if this December, we turned tradition on its head and made movement a part of our celebrations?

A new online, free course on managing early onset type 2 diabetes has been developed for healthcare professionals working with people aged 18 – 39 years living with type 2 diabetes

Researchers at Leicester Diabetes Centre (LDC) have successfully started using the glucose clamp technique as part of a new diabetes research trial.

Leicester Diabetes Centre (LDC) colleagues working on the 'My Diabetes and Me' (MDAM) study have won a Special Recognition Award at University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) NHS Trust's Inclusion Awards 2024 for their work developing and researching the effectiveness of the DESMOND-ID programme. 

For World Diabetes Day 2024, the EDEN education team at Leicester Diabetes Centre (LDC) has collaborated with Dawn Adams, who lives with type 1 diabetes and a #MenopauseMither, to develop an educational infographic to support healthcare professionals (HCPs).

Three experts from Leicester Diabetes Centre (LDC) will be speaking at the 20th National Primary Care Diabetes Society (PCDS) conference in Birmingham on 6 and 7 November.