Evidence

Once-weekly basal insulin now has a UK licence and a NICE recommendation

For someone who needs help with every basal insulin dose, this means 52 assisted injections a year instead of 365.

BMI and type 2 diabetes: how much do ethnicity, age, and sex matter?

REIMAGINE-2: how effective is combination therapy for type 2 diabetes?

The phase 3 diabetes endpoint for retatrutide has been met, as shown by TRANSCEND-T2D-1

The TRANSCEND-T2D-1 trial for Retatrutide i8n T2D was just published in The Lancet - big news. But what are the benefits of a triple agonist?

ACHIEVE-5 phase 3 trial shows superiority of GLP-1 RA alongside basal insulin

ACHIEVE-5 is the first phase 3 trial that tests if the once-daily oral GLP-1 RA (orforglipron) can work alongside basal insulin (with no restriction on food or water).

NG28 NICE GUIDELINES: The Flozin-First Era, and 810,000 More GLP-1 Patients

The February 2026 update to NG28 ends that era. Most newly diagnosed patients will now be offered an SGLT-2 inhibitor alongside metformin from the outset.

ACHIEVE-4: what the mortality signal actually tells UK clinicians

This week’s headline result is also this week's most over-hyped: 57% lower all-cause mortality with orforglipron compared to insulin glargine, and what these findings actually mean.

FreeDM2: Real-time CGM for type 2 diabetes on basal insulin.

A UK randomised trial in the largest insulin-treated type 2 cohort that NICE guidelines NG28 doesn't currently fund.