Beth Kelly

Lead Diabetes Specialist Nurse
Wiltshire Health and Care

Beth currently works as a Lead Community Clinical Diabetes Specialist Nurse in Wiltshire. She completed her MSc in Diabetes Practice with Swansea University in 2021 and is a non-medical prescriber. 

Bet became Co-Chair of the Diabetes Specialist Nursing Forum UK in 2018 and as part of this team, received the “Healthcare Professional of the Year 2018 award” at the Quality in Care Diabetes Awards. The team were also finalists for the Health Service Journal award for Diabetes Initiative of the Year in 2019. 

Beth also joined the multidisciplinary Forum for Injection Technique board in October 2018, and the team went on to publish the 2020, 5th Edition international FIT guidelines. Beth enjoys teaching and is the Senior clinical tutor and module lead for Community Diabetes, on the MSc in Diabetes at Swansea University.  

She also created the @_diabetes101 account in 2020 alongside Partha Kar and Amanda Epps, with a group of 19 healthcare professionals. This was a social media-based account designed to support people living with diabetes during COVID-19 with accredited information. The account went on to exceed 13 million interactions across social media were delighted to win Collaborative Team of the Year and Unsung Heroes Quality in Care Diabetes awards in 2021. 

Beth has had multiple pieces of work about diabetes care published both as a team and on her own and has been involved with many international and national speaking events. 

Beth’s interests lay in working with younger adults, type 1 diabetes, hypoglycaemia, pregnancy and technology.