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12.12.2023

Taking a collaborative approach to type 2 diabetes prevention

Diabetes Scotland has hosted the first in a series of events designed to invite collaboration and innovat...

04.12.2023

Highlands Resident Raises Over £700 in Swim22 Challenge to Support Di...

Christine Ritchie, a local resident from the Highlands, Scotland who lives with type 2 diabetes, recently...

17.11.2023

Professors Roy Taylor and Mike Lean awarded 2024 Rank Prize for Nutrition

Professor Roy Taylor and Professor Mike Lean have been announced as winners of the 2024 Rank Prize for Nu...

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15.11.2023

Diabetes Scotland publishes Diabetes Tech Can’t Wait campaign report

Campaigners join Diabetes Scotland to launch recommendations to help decision-makers go further and faste...

07.11.2023

New care hub opens to support people with diabetes in Forth Valley

An innovative new care hub has opened in Falkirk to support and connect people living with diabetes acros...

24.10.2023

Celebrating our Volunteers this Black History Month

With the theme of this year's #BlackHistoryMonth being 'Saluting Our Sisters,' we thought there was no be...

20.10.2023

Insulin pioneer John Macleod honoured with life-size, story-telling st...

A life-size bronze sculpture of John JR Macleod, the pioneering physiologist who played a key role in the...

19.10.2023

Young Gymnast Lucie Crowned Scottish Regional 3 Champion

In a remarkable display of determination, Lucie, a young gymnast from Scotland diagnosed with type 1 diab...

17.10.2023

Decision-makers in Scotland hear why inequality in diabetes must be re...

Diabetes Scotland took part in a key fringe event at this year’s SNP Annual Conference (15-17 October 202...

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09.08.2023

Diabetes Scotland appoints new National Director

Diabetes Scotland has appointed John Kinnear as the charity’s new National Director.

11.07.2023

Newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes booklet from Diabetes Scotland

You’re likely to have a lot of questions after being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Download Diabetes Sc...

05.06.2023

Volunteers Week 2023: Diabetes Edinburgh

Happy Volunteers’ Week 2023! What an exciting week to be celebrating and the theme couldn’t be more apt; ...

03.02.2023

Research reveals the impact of deprivation on the health of people wit...

Research we funded has revealed people with type 1 diabetes living in socially deprived areas of Scotland...

20.04.2020

Join a digital peer support group

People with diabetes in Scotland are encouraged to join new online groups run by Diabetes Scotland while ...

20.04.2020

Thanks for the song, Siobhan

Diabetes Scotland supporter Siobhan Smith has written and performed a song all about Diabetes UK while sh...

16.04.2020

Congratulations to our Inspire Award Nominees

We are delighted to reveal that there are 57 amazing volunteers and groups nominated for Diabetes Scotlan...