Personal Profile
He has set up nurse-led diabetic renal review clinics in the Birmingham area. He is involved in the research and projects for Diabetic Nephropathy. He has also set up various community based diabetes clinics in Birmingham, which are amongst the first in the country.
He has led from the forefront working tirelessly with the CCG to develop and expand the successful & multiple national award-winning Diabetes Integrated Community Service (DICE) project in 89 CCG GP practices, delivering care closer to home & upskilling Primary Care with excellent GP/Patient satisfaction and cost savings of over half a million. For his DICE/In-Patient work, he was voted national Diabetes Healthcare Professional of the Year Quality in Care award 2016.
His contribution in the wider context of NHS has placed his Trust at the national forefront through his involvement and advisory work with national bodies like DUK, RCP, GMC, CQC, ABCD & JBDS. He is a NICE invited expert & has facilitated 7 national guidelines (2017-2019).
Dr Parijat De is an experienced General Physician and participates in the day to day ward based care of his medical patients as well as participates in medicine on-call and deals with acute medical emergencies. He has a wide interest and expertise in all aspects of Diabetes, especially in the field of Metabolic Medicine and Diabetes Renal disease. His special interest in Diabetes is Metabolic Syndrome as well as the growing problem of obesity including new oral and injectable therapies for weight loss (Saxenda).
His specialities are:
- Thyroid disease
- Ovarian and adrenal dysfunction
- Hirsutism
- Polycystic ovaries
- Calcium and electrolyte disorders
- Pituitary disease
- Osteoporosis
- Endocrine hypertension
- Vitamin D deficiency
- Erectile dysfunction
- Menopause
- Infertility
With special interests relating to Obesity and all Endocrinological diseases as well as the growing problems of Type 2 diabetes, his medical approach uses all treatments currently available for the management of obesity in Type 2 diabetes and otherwise (including GLP-1 injections like Liraglutide, Dulaglutide & Semaglutide).
Further special interests of Dr Parijat are:
- Diabetic renal disease
- Cardio-metabolic syndrome & Erectile dysfunction in Type 2 diabetes
- Adolescent and Type 1 diabetes including insulin pumps CGM & Freestyle Libre.
