Diabetes CRM
Tue 19 May 2026 08:30-16:10
Holiday Inn, Leicester, 5 CPD Hours

Driving improved service delivery through early detection and novel CRM interventions

As Cardio-Renal-Metabolic (CRM) syndrome continues to rise, this conference provides a valuable opportunity for diabetes, cardiovascular and renal specialists, nurses and ANPs from primary, secondary and community care to come together and share best practice. By focusing on risk stratification, early detection, therapy optimisation and coordinated MDT pathways, this innovative programme explores how integrated, preventative and holistic approaches to CRM care can improve long-term outcomes for patients living with CRM conditions.

Secure your place today and leave with actionable insights to support service improvement and enhance coordinated CRM care within your local setting

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Advancing Cardio-Renal-Metabolic Approaches
Face-to-face 5 hours £49+VAT

Improving your practice

Enhance your knowledge with expert led, structured NHS learning

Designed to enhance early intervention, optimise patient outcomes and promote holistic practice, this unique day brings together the latest evidence and real-world examples to help you embed CRM best practice into your everyday service delivery by:

  • Reviewing the expanding evidence base for SGLT2s and GLP-1s across CRM conditions
  • Diagnosing and managing Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD)
  • Enhancing early intervention: addressing the common soil of diabetes, cardiovascular and kidney disease
  • Exploring a case study of an award-winning CRM holistic MDT model
  • Guiding therapy with natriuresis to support improved patient management
  • Understanding how frailty affects CRM risk and treatment tolerance
  • Improving functional outcomes by managing sarcopenic obesity
  • Optimising nutrition and preventing harm in weight-loss interventions

Connect, share and learn

Unpack the latest in clinical care and multidisciplinary collaboration to improve patient outcomes

This one-day event is packed with best practice examples from expert speakers, including:

  • Expert speakers sharing clinical experience, practical tips and the latest evidence 
  • Real-world case study from award winning MDT clinic to provide the practical insights into developing a consultant-led MDT service
  • Q&A sessions with leading clinicians and pioneers

With thanks to our exhibitor

Invitation to sponsor

This interactive event is a great opportunity for providers of diabetes technology and treatments to support healthcare professionals. If you sponsor this forum, you will be a fundamental part of the agenda, moderating the discussions, presenting in the dedicated ‘industry partners showcase’ plus exhibiting and networking during the break times. To find out more about all the engagement and branding opportunities available in the full sponsorship package, please email Sarah Kemm or call Sarah on 01732 897788.

8:30
Registration, networking and refreshments
9:00
Chair’s opening remarks
The nature of cardiovascular, renal and metabolic disease
9:10
How heart, kidney and metabolic diseases interact to increase risk and long-term complications
  • Recognising heart failure risk in diabetes and implications for long-term CRM outcomes
  • Overview of the expanding evidence base for SGLT2s and GLP-1s across CRM conditions
  • Understanding how CVD manifests in patients with CKD and diabetes (T1 and 2)
Improving outcomes in CRM patients: frailty and nutrition
9:35
Adapting CRM care for frail patients
  • Understanding frailty: how it affects CRM risk and treatment tolerance
  • Managing sarcopenic obesity: applying strategies to preserve muscle mass, optimise metabolic health and improve functional outcomes
  • Navigating the use of GLP-1s in frail individuals
Dr Thomas Barber, Consultant Endocrinologist and Professor of Endocrinology, University of Warwick and University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire
10:00
Questions and answers with your speakers
10:10
Optimising nutrition and preventing harm in weight-loss interventions
  • Nutrition support strategies across community and MDT care: recognising nutritional red flags
  • Assessing nutrition and dietary intake to maximise benefit and minimise GLP-1 associated weight loss
  • Recognising when to pause or stop weight-loss therapies based on nutritional decline
Frank Arsenyadis, Post-doctoral Obesity/Diabetes Researcher & Dietitian, Leicester Diabetes Centre, University of Leicester and University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust
10:35
Questions and answers with Frank Arsenyadis
10:45
Industry partners’ showcase: Discover the latest products and solutions in CRM Care
  • If you are interested in sponsoring this conference, please contact sarah.kemm@sbk-healthcare.co.uk or telephone 01732 897788 for further details
11:10
Networking break
Early and integrated MDT care in CRM
11:30
Enhancing early intervention: addressing the common soil of diabetes, cardiovascular and kidney disease
  • Using online platforms to support GPs and community clinicians
  • Identifying high-risk patients through comprehensive risk factor assessment
  • Ensuring timely referral to specialist teams via clear criteria to enable early detection and intervention
Donna Sutton, Lead Community Diabetes Specialist Nurse, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
11:55
Case study: Secondary Prevention Service recognised with HSJ Award for holistic CRM care
  • Practical insights: bringing together an MDT consultant-led team
  • Using evidence-based medical treatments to help patients achieve recommended targets
  • Providing personalised treatment and support to improve medication adherence in the early months after a cardiovascular event
Jonathan Fenwick, Senior Clinical Pharmacist, Lipid Management and Secondary Prevention, Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust
12:20
Questions and answers with Donna Sutton and Jonathan Fenwick
12:30
Interactive discussion: Practical challenges and solutions in CRM management. On your tables, this is an opportunity to discuss:
  • How does heart failure, CKD and metabolic disease influence your treatment priorities in practice?
  • How do you decide between, or combine, SGLT2s and GLP-1s in patients with diabetes, CKD and CVD? What barriers do you encounter? How do you overcome this?
  • How can you work collaboratively in the MDT to intervene and determine risk early on?
1:00
Networking lunch
Guiding CRM therapy: ensuring optimisation and patient safety
2:00
Translating evidence into practice: SGLT2s and GLP-1s
  • Practical implementation of GLP-1s in cardiometabolic and obesity management
  • Navigating prescribing across primary, community and specialist care
  • Positioning gliptins within modern CRM pathways alongside SGLT2s and GLP-1s
  • Discussing evidence for GLP-1s in Heart Failure with preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF): symptom burden, weight, inflammation and patient selection
2:30
Questions and answers with your speaker
2:40
Interactive discussion: Applying CRM therapies. On your tables, this is an opportunity to discuss:
  • How do you approach patient education and adherence?
  • What challenges arise when coordinating treatment across primary, community, and specialist care? How do you overcome this?
  • How do you manage gliptin therapy as renal function declines?
  • How do weight reduction and inflammation influence your decision-making around GLP-1 use in patients with HFpEF?
3:10
Networking break
3:30
The liver in CRM care: diagnosing and managing Metabolic dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD)
  • Considering MASLD as a core CRM condition
  • Identifying MASLD in CRM patients: diagnosis, risk stratification and red flags
  • Emerging therapies for MASLD and how they intersect with GLP-1s, SGLT2s and weight-based strategies
  • Implications for MDT care and referral pathways
Professor Samuel Seidu, Professor in Primary Care, Diabetes and Cardio-metabolic Medicine, University of Leicester
3:55
Guiding therapy with natriuresis to support improved patient management
  • Assessing urinary sodium as a biomarker to evaluate response to diuretic therapy
  • Using natriuretic response to inform individualised treatment decisions
  • Supporting effective fluid management and decongestion, contributing to timely and safe discharge
4:20
Questions and answers with your speakers
4:30
Chairs closing remarks

Call for speakers

If you would like to give a presentation and share your work or the work of your service at this online conference, we would be delighted to hear from you.

To discuss speaking opportunities please email the conference producer Caitlin Boyce or call Caitlin on 01732 897788.

Your expert speaker line-up:

This conference brings together CRM professionals to highlight the value of a joint approach and showcase best practice in treating and supporting patients with CRM conditions. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from:  

Donna Sutton
Job Title:
Lead Community Diabetes Specialist Nurse
Organisation
The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Biography

Donna brings strong clinical insight into how cardiometabolic risks intersect with diabetes, particularly in complex or high-risk populations. Her background allows her to speak confidently on:

  • Hypertension, lipid management, and obesity in diabetes
  • Early identification and prevention of cardiovascular complications
  • The practical application of NICE guidance in real-world settings

Donna currently works as a Lead Community Diabetes Specialist Nurse for the NHS in Newcastle.  She has a Post Graduate Diploma in Diabetes Clinical Care and Management with Kings College and is a non-medical prescriber.

Donna also works for Spirit Healthcare as their Clinical Lead for their Empower structured education programmes.

Donna has worked alongside the Diabetes Safety Organisation putting together their training programme for their workplace hypo kit.

During Covid Donna joined a team of healthcare professionals from across the UK in the @_diabetes101 account.  This was a media-based account designed to support people living with diabetes during COVID-19 with accredited information.  The account went on to exceed 13 million interactions across social media and was delighted to win Collaborative Team of the Year and Unsung Heroes at the Quality in Care Diabetes awards in 2021.

Donna has had pieces of work about diabetes care published.

Donna’s interests are in Type 2 diabetes, education and technology.
Jonathan Fenwick
Job Title:
Senior Clinical Pharmacist, Lipid Management and Secondary Prevention
Organisation
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust
Biography
Professor Samuel Seidu
Job Title:
Professor in Primary Care, Diabetes and Cardio-Metabolic Medicine
Organisation
University of Leicester
Biography

Professor Sam Seidu is a Professor of Primary Care Diabetes and Cardiometabolic Medicine. He currently serves as Vice-Chair for Research at Primary Care Diabetes Europe (PCDE) and is a board member of the UK Primary Care Diabetes Society. He is also a Clinical Lead and mentor for diabetes within the Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care System. In 2021, he was recognised by the Royal College of General Practitioners as the most outstanding early career researcher. Professor Seidu also serves as an Associate Editor of the Primary Care Diabetes journal.
Dr Thomas Barber
Job Title:
Consultant Endocrinologist and Professor of Endocrinology
Organisation
University of Warwick and University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire
Biography

Professor Barber is a Consultant Endocrinologist and Professor of Endocrinology at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust and the University of Warwick. Prof Barber leads the obesity service at UHCW and has extensive experience and expertise in the management of obesity and related metabolic and endocrine conditions across the entire treatment landscape. Prof Barber has innovated and implemented with his team key digital strategies for obesity management, including ‘W8 buddy’ which has been officially recognized by NICE for use within tier 3 settings throughout the NHS. Prof Barber has a focus on clinical research into obesity and metabolic health, and has published 163 papers in the field, h-index 48, over 10,500 citations, and was recently recognized by Scholar GPS as a highly ranked scholar in the field of obesity, placing him in the top 0.05% of scholars, and ranked number 37 in the world. Prof Barber is editor in chief for the peer reviewed journal, Expert Review in Endocrinology and Metabolism. Prof Barber regularly engages with national media on topics relating to obesity and metabolism, regularly presents as an invited speaker at national scientific meetings, and is a member of the ‘All Party Parliamentary Group for Obesity.
Frank Arsenyadis
Job Title:
Post-doctoral Obesity/Diabetes Researcher & Dietitian
Organisation
Leicester Diabetes Centre, University of Leicester and University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust
Biography

A clinical-academic specialist Dietitian in the field of obesity and type 2 diabetes working at the Leicester Diabetes Centre (University of Leicester). I lead the evaluation of the local obesity service trialling the use of new GLP1-RA pharmacotherapies and holistic multidisciplinary care in patients living with severe obesity and complex comorbidities. I investigate ways of optimising weight loss by preserving lean mass for diabetes remission in minority ethnic populations through a randomised controlled trial design. I have a particular interest in measuring how weight loss affects physiological and metabolic health in people living with type 2 diabetes and obesity. 

Learn and connect

Ideal for healthcare professionals across primary, secondary, and community care, this engaging face to face conference will equip you with the tools to deliver more integrated and efficient care, with a better understanding of the connected nature of CRM conditions. This includes but is not limited to:

  • Diabetes Specialists, Nurses and Consultants
  • Cardiology Specialists, Consultants, Nurses and Advanced Nurse Practitioners
  • Renal Specialists, Consultants, Nurses and Advanced Nurse Practitioners
  • Community pharmacists
  • Consultants in Diabetes and Endocrinology
  • Dietitians

Past attendee feedback

Advancing Cardio-Renal-Metabolic Approaches follows the success of the November 2025 webinar, ‘Delivering Integrated Care for CRM: Early Detection and Intervention in Practice’, which drew over 150 attendees and was praised as “brilliant” and “informative.” Don’t miss this opportunity to join your peers. Discover what the community had to say:

“Informative and practical”

Delivering Integrated Care for CRM: Early Detection and Intervention in Practice, 2025

“Very insightful, good understanding of managing complex conditions and medications to use”

Delivering Integrated Care for CRM: Early Detection and Intervention in Practice, 2025

“Well-presented and informative”

Delivering Integrated Care for CRM: Early Detection and Intervention in Practice, 2025

"Great networking opportunity. It was good to hear the different approaches being adopted by various teams and exchange ideas "

Optimising Hybrid Closed Loop Systems: Training Workshops, London, 2025

“Amazing, so good to address obesity in the context of current trends, research, funding and weight loss drugs”

Foundations of Obesity Management: From First Consultations to Long Term Support, 2025

“Very well organised with fantastic speakers”

Foundations of Obesity Management: From First Consultations to Long Term Support, 2025

View further comments on SBK Healthcare events on Trust Pilot.

Pricing structure

  • £49+VAT - one NHS or public sector place
  • Commercial companies are invited to sponsor this day. Please email Sarah Kemm for further details.

SBK Healthcare is pleased to offer the special attendance fee of £49+VAT to all NHS professionals. If you are in a situation where you do not have the funding, but would like to attend, please do contact Sophie Richardson on 01732 897788.

Venue details

Venue name: Holiday Inn Leicester

Address: 129 St. Nicholas Circle, Leicester LE1 5LX

Tel: 0116 482 1900


Holiday Inn® Leicester hotel is a 10-minute taxi ride (or 20-minute walk) from Leicester train station. The M1 motorway is a 15 minute drive away, and there is an NCP car park next to the hotel.


Parking

There is no hotel owned car park, however there are two nearby car parks, as follows:


Highcross Rooftop Car Park is a 7-minute walk to the hotel through Jubilee Square. The car park postcode is LE1 4AN. Tickets can be validated at hotel reception for a discounted price of £6 for 24 hours. Parking is then payable at the machines in the car park. This rate is based on a single exit. The height limit for this car park is 1.98 metres. For directions to Highcross Rooftop please click here.


NCP St Nicholas Circle car park is adjacent to the hotel. The car park postcode is LE1 4LF. The tariff for parking and pre-booking can be found here:  https://www.ncp.co.uk/find-a-car-park/car-parks/leicester-st-nicholas-circle/. Full price for 24 hours is £22.95 however early bird entry by 9.00am is £10.95. Discounts are available on pre-booking. The height limit for this car park is 2.05 metres.

What happens once you have made your booking?

Once you have booked your place, SBK Healthcare will correspond with you using the email address you provided at the time of booking and you will be sent a formal confirmation. If you have not received this within 48 hours of making your booking please check your junk folder and then email bookings@sbk-healthcare.co.uk or call 01732 897788. .

Approximately one week prior to the conference you will be sent an email which will include all the final details for attendance on the day, including a final agenda and venue information.

Please inform us by writing to bookings@sbk-healthcare.co.uk if you have any special dietary or other requirements.

Reservations

If your funding has not yet been secured or you would like to hold your place with no obligation, you can reserve your place with us. Please email the reservations team at SBK Healthcare with your details:

  • Booking contact: name, job title, department, email and telephone number
  • Event(s) to reserve for: title and date
  • Delegate details (for each delegate): name, job title, department, email and telephone number
  • Organisation details: name and address

Alternatively you can make a confirmed booking by emailing the above information to the bookings team 

Terms and conditions

Certification of attendance

A certificate for Continuing Professional Development will be given to every fully registered participant who completes the course, as a record of your continuing professional training and development.

Registration fees

You will be sent an instant payment option or invoice on registration. Your payment is required in advance. If your fee has not been received prior to the event, and you are not able to provide a PO or proof of payment, you will be asked to make a credit or debit card payment on the day.

Modify registration

To let us know if your details are not correct when you have already registered, please email the bookings team.

Cancellations and substitutions

A full refund of fees will be made only for cancellations received within the first 48 hours of the booking being made. Notice of cancellation must be received in writing by emailing the bookings team at SBK Healthcare. Should you need to cancel your registration after this date, the registration fee remains payable in its entirety although a substitution will be accepted and conference documentation will be provided. Substitution attendees for delegates unable to attend after registering are acceptable at any time.

Event changes

It may be necessary for reasons beyond the control of the conference organisers to alter the content, speakers or the timing of the programme. We will endeavour to keep you abreast of such changes but any unavoidable change to the format will not constitute a reason to refund the fee. Should the event be postponed, we will endeavour to reschedule the event. If, for reasons beyond the control of the conference organiser, the event is cancelled, a full refund will be made. We do not accept any liability for any incurred costs resulting from a postponement or cancellation.

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Confirmed exhibitor

Why sponsor?

Our role at SBK Healthcare is to bring industry together with healthcare professionals so that you can educate and inform your audience. These trail-blazing forums offer dedicated presentation, Q&A, networking and discussion time, each sponsor will be full immersed into the event and able to effectively engage with your NHS audience.

‘Always a pleasure to attend an SBK event! Great staff, great organisation and always well attended by industry and HCPs’.

Air Liquide, Diabetes Developments National Networking Forum, Belfast

'Brilliant event that gives clinicians and industry the opportunity to discuss current ‘hot topics’ together, collaboratively.'

Menarini, Diabetes Developments National Networking Forum, Birmingham

'Given a great opportunity to reach out to people who we would not normally have access to.'

Lilly, Diabetes Developments National Networking Forum, Birmingham

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Reach out today

If you would like more information on our sponsorship options an in-house forum or if you wish to discuss your needs and what solutions may be appropriate for your business, please contact: 

Sarah Kemm 

Contact: 01732 897788 

Email: sarah.kemm@sbk-healthcare.co.uk