Nicola Milne, Queen’s Nurse, qualified as a registered nurse and midwife in 1998 and 1991, respectively, before moving into primary care in 2002, where she worked as a practice nurse for 16 years until April 2018. While retaining a generalist role, she had a special interest in diabetes, with a key focus on ensuring effective, accessible care. She moved to establish the community diabetes education and support team in central Manchester – a finalist in the Diabetes Quality in Care Awards in 2022.

As a co-author of the document ‘Best practice diabetes care within the primary care network’, she worked to put the evidence from the document into practice as the dIabetes support lead across a primary care network in south Manchester from 2022-2024. She continues to work in primary care and is also the diabetes specialist nurse lead for the Greater Manchester and East Cheshire Strategic Clinical Network.

Ms Milne has presented abstracts at multiple conferences and has become increasingly involved in the education of healthcare professionals. She has published on chronic kidney disease and diabetes, and continues to be involved in projects focusing on various aspects of diabetes management.

She has previously served as chair of the Diabetes UK Professional Conference Organising Committee for Liverpool and was a member of the NICE Diabetes Guidelines suite 2019-2020. Currently, she is joint co-vice chair of the Primary Care Diabetes Society, an editorial board member of the Journal of Diabetes and Primary Care and the Journal of Diabetes Nursing, a member of the Diabetes UK Research Study Group for diabetes-related complications, member of the Diabetes UK Healthcare Professional Advisory Committee and a course tutor for i-Heed for the diabetes diploma modules.

Nicola Milne is speaking at the following sessions on Thursday 24 October:

• Type 2 diabetes prevention in nursing professionals: overcoming barriers to not following our own advice

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