Diabetes: Subject Guide | Library

Diabetes

Use this guide to find information resources about diabetes including books, reports and journal articles

Last updated: 08/04/2025

Key Resources
Books
Journals

Key Resources

RCN Learn: Diabetes essentials

This resource is designed to provide an overview of the core concepts of diabetes, diagnosis and current treatments, your role and responsibilities in regard to treating people living with diabetes.

HSC: Northern Ireland diabetes network

A network of carers, health social care professionals and people living with diabetes working in partnership with Diabetes UK to deliver better care.

Language Matters Diabetes

Access guidance on considerate language usage for positive outcomes within diabetes care.

NHS England: National Diabetes Audit Programme

Access interactive data visualisations relating to the care of people with diabetes.

NHS Wales: Hub for Diabetes Healthcare Professionals

Access audits, educational resources, and pathways for care relating to the care for people with diabetes.

Trend Diabetes

Access educational resources to inform best practice in diabetes care.

Diabetes UK: resources to improve care

Resources and tools to help healthcare professionals and commissioners improve diabetes care.

Scottish Government (2021) Diabetes care: diabetes improvement plan. Edinburgh: Scottish Government.

World Health Organization: Diabetes

Articles

Davies M J, Aroda V R, Collins B et al (2022) Management of hyperglycemia in type 2 diabetes, 2022. A consensus report by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), Diabetes Care, 45(11), pp. 2753-2786.

Valabhji J, Barron E, Bradley D and others (2020) Early outcomes from the English National Health Service diabetes prevention programme, Diabetes Care, 43(1), pp. 152-160.

Misra S, Holman N, Barron E, et al (2023) Characteristics and care of young people with type 2 diabetes included in the national diabetes audit datasets for England, Diabetic Medicine, 40(1), p. e14940.

Taylor R, Irvine K M, Barnes A C et a;. (2022) 218-LB: Remission of type 2 diabetes after weight loss in 鈥榥ormal鈥� weight people鈥擳he ReTUNE study, Diabetes, 71(Supplement_1), pp. 218-LB.

Brief item.

Taylor R, Barnes A C, Hollingsworth K G et al. (2023) Aetiology of Type 2 diabetes in people with a ‘normal’ body mass index: testing the personal fat threshold hypothesis, Clinical Science, 137(16), pp. 1333–1346.

We would like to thank the RCN Diabetes member community for their input into the development of this subject guide.

Books

Davidson T (2020) What you need to know about diabetes. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.

Dunning T and Sinclair A J (2020) Care of people with diabetes: a manual for healthcare practice. Newark: John Wiley and Sons.

Holt R I G and Flyvbjerg A (2024) Textbook of diabetes. 6th edn. Newark: John Wiley & Sons.

Klonoff D C, Kerr D and Mulvaney S A (2020) Diabetes digital health. San Diego: Elsevier.

Image of Kopelman's Clinical obesity in adults and children textbook

Kopelman P G, Caterson I D and Dietz W H (2022) Clinical obesity in adults and children. 4th edn. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

Image of Ng's guide to type 1 diabetes management technology

Ng M(2022) A guide to type 1 diabetes management, technology, and everything else you need to know. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.