Pump Terms

Glossary letters

  1. 4 terms starting with A
  2. 6 terms starting with B
  3. 9 terms starting with C
  4. 6 terms starting with D
  5. 1 terms starting with E
  6. 2 terms starting with F
  7. 2 terms starting with G
  8. 4 terms starting with H
  9. 6 terms starting with I
  10. No terms starting with J
  11. No terms starting with K
  12. 2 terms starting with L
  13. 3 terms starting with M
  14. 2 terms starting with N
  15. 1 terms starting with O
  16. 6 terms starting with P
  17. No terms starting with Q
  18. 1 terms starting with R
  19. 6 terms starting with S
  20. 7 terms starting with T
  21. 1 terms starting with U
  22. No terms starting with V
  23. No terms starting with W
  24. No terms starting with X
  25. No terms starting with Y
  26. No terms starting with Z

Reference

  1. 01A to Z glossary

Explainers

  1. 02How an insulin pump works
  2. 03Pump or injections?
  3. 04Infusion sets and site rotation
  4. 05Carbohydrate counting
  5. 06Alarms and fail-safes
  6. 07Sick days
  7. 08Exercise
  8. 09School and nursery
  9. 10Travelling with a pump

Related reading

  1. 11Diabetes and the nervous system
  2. 12Official UK guidance

About

  1. 13About
  2. 14How we check facts
  3. 15Contact
  4. 16Privacy

How we check facts

What counts as a source here, how a definition is written from it, and what happens when something turns out to be wrong.

Updated 11 October 2026By the Pump Terms editors

A reference is only as good as the pages behind it. This page sets out the rules the editors follow, so that you can judge for yourself how far to trust a definition. Nothing here is a claim of clinical authority: the aim is narrower, which is to say what public bodies have said and to say it clearly.

What counts as a source

Every factual statement has to come from a page the editors have opened and read. The preferred sources are public bodies and professional organisations that publish for patients and clinicians: the NHS, NICE, NHS England, Diabetes UK, the MHRA and other UK government pages, NHS Inform in Scotland, and, where UK material does not cover a point, international bodies such as the CDC, the NIDDK and the American Diabetes Association. Peer-reviewed reviews are used for background. Manufacturer material is not used to support a definition.

How a definition is written

A glossary definition is written in the editors' own words from one or two sources, kept to a sentence or two, and given a numbered citation that points to the source list at the foot of the glossary. If sources disagree, or use a term in slightly different ways, the definition says what the cited body says and does not try to settle the difference. If a term could not be supported from a page the editors opened, it was left out.

Numbers, doses and targets

This site does not give personal doses, settings or targets. Where a public body publishes a figure, such as a threshold in sick day guidance, the page attributes it by name, for example "NICE says" or "Diabetes UK says", and nothing is rounded, combined or extended. A figure that could not be checked against a page the editors opened was not used.

Dates and updates

Each page shows the date it was last updated. Guidance changes, so the date matters: a page is a snapshot of what the cited pages said on that day. Readers who need the current position, especially on NICE recommendations, should open the source itself, and the official guidance page lists where to find them.

What this process does not do

It is not clinical review. No doctor, nurse or dietitian has signed off these pages, and the editors do not claim to have used a pump or looked after anyone who does. The process also cannot catch every change in guidance between updates. For decisions about care, the final word belongs to the reader's own diabetes team.

Corrections

If you find an error, an out-of-date statement or a source that does not say what a page claims, use the contact page. Factual corrections are made on the page itself and the update date changes. The editors do not quietly rewrite a claim to hide that it was wrong when the change affects what a reader would do.

In short

Public sources only, opened and read, attributed by name, dated, and corrected in the open. It is a reference, not a clinic.