European Diabetes Forum to lobby for policy change

At its annual meeting in Berlin, Germany, the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) has launched a new initiative, aimed at enabling “the sustainability of European healthcare systems to cope with the diabetes pandemic.”

Dubbed the European Diabetes Forum (EUDF), the new working group is being initiated in the context of an epidemic of the disease. It’s estimated that some 60 million Europeans have diabetes.

The EUDF says that most healthcare systems are “poorly fitted to the daily needs of the person with diabetes and fail to track the impact on lives, through complications that extend far beyond classical ‘diabetology’ and into many other medical fields.”