Sarah Hopkin

Sarah’s interest in diabetes nursing began as a practice nurse in Southeast London in 2002. In addition to undertaking the Diabetes and Primary Care module at King’s college London,

she was guided by Mary Mackinnon’s book Providing Diabetes Care in General Practice. In 2007 she joined the a newly established community diabetes service in Kensington and Chelsea as a diabetes specialist nurse. Sarah moved to Guy’s and St Thomas’s in 2010 and is currently lead diabetes nurse for women’s health. She completed the FEND Diabetes Clinical & Management MSc programme at King’s College London in 2023. Her dissertation was an audit of intrapartum management of type 1 diabetes, the use of individual diabetes birth plans and effect on neonatal hypoglycaemia and transfers to neonatal care. In 2025/2026 she participated in the Diabetes Africa project to improve equity in diabetes and pregnancy care, particularly for women of Black heritage.