Abstract

Grace Vanterpool* speaks to Daphne Boulicalt, Commissioning Editor: Grace has been nursing for 37 years, working as a diabetes specialist nurse for 19 years and a consultant nurse in diabetes for 9 years. She works across sectors in secondary care at Ealing Hospital, community and primary care. She has published her work and holds lectureships at two universities. Grace has received several awards for her services to diabetes, nursing and ethnic minorities including the National Health Service and King's Fund Champions Award Services to diabetes patients in 2003, the Chief Executive Award (Thames Valley) for work done over and above the call of duty in 2004, the Community Nurse of the Year in 2005 and in 2006 she was awarded the Nurse of the Year, an award for innovations and improving the health of black and minority ethnic groups, and the MBE. Grace chairs the RCN diabetes forum and is a co-chair of Training Research Education Nurses in Diabetes (TREND). She sits on the All Parliamentary Group for diabe...

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