Diabetes is an increasingly prevalent condition with potentially devastating acute and chronic sequelae. A significant proportion of inpatients at a typical district general hospital (DGH) will, at any one time, have diabetes, many of whom develop hypoglycaemia. This increases morbidity for these individuals as well as the length of hospital admission. To counteract this, a hypoglycaemia management initiative was launched in an Essex DGH in the form of a “Hypo Box” and algorithm. This article presents the results of an audit that aimed to investigated whether this initiative was compliant with Trust algorithm recommendations, and to assess whether nurses feel better equipped to manage inpatient hypoglycaemia since its launch....