Banting memorial lecture 2025: Aligning clinical practice, policy and research
Study context
- Population
- National diabetes programmes across England since 2013 (NHS England)
- Outcome
- Principles for making the case for, and implementing, national policy
Methodological detailsnarrative review
- Narrative review
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
- Ensure granular data collection to support evaluation and exploit data linkages to harness real-world datasets
- Where good evidence exists, implement evidence-based policy; where it does not but political pressures exist, pilot and evaluate
- Rapidly translate new high-quality evidence into policy and practice
- Support and protect the workload of healthcare professionals, particularly in primary care
Further findings
Epidemiological perspective
- COVID-19 pandemic further unlocked the potential of national routinely collected electronic healthcare datasets
- These datasets demonstrated improvements in diabetes complications and mortality through routine care delivery
- Next epidemiological transition in the global diabetes epidemic to multimorbidity/multiple long-term conditions
Original publication
Banting memorial lecture 2025: Aligning clinical practice, policy and research. Diabet Med. Published 9 February 2026. doi:10.
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