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PITstop diabetes courses 2025/26

We offer a range of diabetes courses for general practice teams, community nurses and new-to-post DSNs. Our courses are highly valued by past students, for the enthusiastic delivery, practical content and back-up resource packs.
To navigate you to the courses relevant to you, please click on the link(s) below. 
 Are you a: 

non-registered practitioner working in General Practice
registered practitioner, new to diabetes, working in General Practice
registered practitioner with experience in diabetes, working in General Practice  (or new-to-post DSN) wanting a 1-day update (not including injectables)
registered practitioner with experience in diabetes, working in General Practice (or new-to-post DSN) wanting to develop skills in type 2 diabetes injectable initiation and ongoing support
community nurse supporting people with diabetes, including glucose sensors and insulin adjustment
past PrePITstop student enquiring about CPD options
past advanced PITstop students enquiring about CPD options - 1-day conference
past advanced PITstop students enquiring about CPD options - 4-hour CGM course

For any questions contact admin@pitstopdiabetes.co.

Changes to the 2.5-day PITstop advanced diabetes course accreditation

We have decided to change the way the 2.5-day PITstop advanced course (PITstop) is accredited, moving away from University Accreditation and applying for RCGP accreditation to ensure we continue to meet the high standard we strive to maintain. At present PITstop is credit rated with Greenwich University (15 credits at level 5). To obtain the additional 15 credits, students have 12 months from day 1 of their course, to submit a completed competency document (signed by a local assessor) and a 1500-word reflective report about one of their insulin or GLP-1 Agonist initiations. In a cohort of 24, on average, 2-3 students choose to submit.

Anne Goodchild voted Outstanding Educator of the Year at the 2023 QiC awards

   

 

We are pleased to announce that Anne Goodchild has won the vote for ‘Oustanding Educator of the Year’. A BIG thank you to everyone who voted for Anne and who has supported Anne and PITstop courses over the years.
Anne and Lauren enjoyed the awards evening at Sanofi UK Headquarters in Reading on 12th October 2023 and said, “It was a great evening, lovely to see so many familiar faces, celebrate the innovation happening in diabetes and of course Anne’s win!”
Comment from Anne Goodchild
“I’m very proud to have won the Oustanding Educator of the Year ar the QiC Awards last night. Thank you for all your votes.

Join the PITstop diabetes training team

An amazing opportunity has arisen to join our team of highly committed trainers, as part of our plans to expand the PITstop diabetes training team.
Our training portfolio focuses on developing practice-based diabetes teams and we are looking for enthusiastic and experienced trainers, working part-time in diabetes roles (or full time, with permission to pay your employers for your time).  See our course descriptions and 2022/23 course dates.
Ideally you will have experience delivering diabetes training, along with diabetes-related qualifications to enable you to feel competent in this highly skilled role. The majority of our courses take place Tuesday-Friday.

The PITstop portfolio of diabetes courses is now available online

We are pleased to announce that dates for all of our national courses are now available online.

You can register and pay online, via the website. The courses include:

PITstop - advanced injectable initiation
PITstop support - supporting people on injectables
1-day PrePITstop - key message foundation course
3-day PrePITstop - full foundation course
1-day HCA PITstop - involving the non-registered practitioner in diabetes services in General Practice

We have already piloted a 1-day HCA course and a 1-day PrePITstop and both well evaluated positively. All students that attended them stated that they would recommend the online courses to others.

We will be sending out resources packs, including the June 2020 workbooks to every delegate.