Endocrinology and Diabetes
Welcome to the Department of Diabetes and Endocrinology. We are
a specialist university hospital offering tertiary level care
across the whole spectrum of endocrinology - the field of medicine
concerned with hormone conditions.
Adult endocrine and diabetes services are based at Bristol Royal
Infirmary. We have specific specialist care pathways for patients
with neuroendocrine, pituitary, adrenal and thyroid disease as well
as for patients with a reproductive endocrine diagnosis (including
pregnancy with an endocrine condition), multiple endocrine
neoplasia or other endocrine genetic syndromes, as well as care for
patients with endocrine complications from previous cancer therapy.
We also offer highly specialist care for patients with diabetes in
pregnancy, patients on insulin pump therapy, patients with diabetic
neuropathic pain, patients with diabetic foot complications and
patients with diabetes in the context of cystic fibrosis, renal
disease or genetic syndromes. The diabetes team believe strongly in
patient empowerment and patient education.
As hormone conditions frequently affect many body systems, we
have close working relationships across a range of clinical
disciplines and have dedicated multidisciplinary teams and defined
pathways of care to ensure that we deliver effective, timely and
high quality care to our patients.
The department of endocrinology comprises academic and NHS
consultant staff as well as specialist registrars, a lecturer, a
clinical research fellow and specialist nurses, ensuring that we
have a broad portfolio of expertise to support patient care. We
strongly believe in combining high quality, evidence based clinical
care and aspire to achieve excellent communication with our
patients and healthcare colleagues. All patients seen in routine
secondary care clinics will receive a consultant level opinion and
all patients seen in tertiary specialty clinics will receive both a
consultant level opinion and consultant sign off of the clinic
letter, which serves as the patient care record. It is routine
practice for all patient correspondence to be copied to the patient
unless they express a wish not to receive this information or there
are valid clinical reasons not to.
Senior specialist endocrine trainees from the Severn
Deanery Rotation rotate through our service and we aim to offer
excellent clinical experience, combined with the opportunity to
develop skills in presentation, critical appraisal of the
scientific literature and audit. There are also many opportunities
for research experience (across the range from small projects to
higher academic degrees), publications and exposure to NHS
management.