Diabetes

Diabetes Department provides comprehensive service across all areas of diabetes and endocrinology.  Diabetes and endocrine team includes consultants, diabetes educators, dietician, onsite podiatry foot care, and on-site retinal screening team. Service is supported by on-site phlebotomy service.

Unique cases being treated include X-linked hypophosphataemic rickets, autosomal recessive Vitamin D hydroxylation-deficient rickets type 1A (VDDR1A), pregnancy associated osteoporosis, polyostotic fibrous dysplasia and other rare types of secondary osteoporosis and metabolic bone diseases.

Specialist & dedicated thyroid cancer service is delivered in the setting of multidiscipliary team including endocrinologists, pathologist, nuclear medicine, radiologists, ENT surgeons.

The department also provides sub-specialist services in investigating and managing endocrine hypertension and adrenal disorders.

Technologies in treating T1DM are widely used to enhance patients’ care and improve quality of life (including state-of-the-art automated insulin delivery pumps and real-time CGM).

What we treat?

Diabetes

• Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes management.
• Diabetes diagnosis, monitoring, and provision of various treatment options.
• Goal setting and problem-solving.
• Medications review and prescribing.
• Monitoring and using results to improve glycaemic control.
• Diabetic Retinopathy Screening (DRS).
• Diabetes education.
• Dietetic support.
• Preventing, detecting, and treating acute diabetes complications.
• Reducing the risk, screening, detecting, and treating cardiac, kidney and foot complications.
• Use of technology in diabetes (including pump management, rtCGM, isCGM).
• Provision, overseeing and managing patients on automated insulin delivery system (automated insulin pumps).

Endocrine

• Thyroid diseases – hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism
• Thyroid cancer diagnosis and management, including iodine ablation.
• FNA, CT, ultrasoun and MRI imaging. 
• Osteoporosis evaluation and treatment, fracture risk modification
• Management of all rare metabolic bone diseases. 
• Bone density by DXA.
• Calcium disorders and vitamin D deficiency
• Pituitary disorders
• Adrenal disorders
• Female reproductive disorders – PCOS, menstrual disorders, menopause
• Testosterone deficiency and male hypogonadism
• Cancers of the endocrine glands