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Jim Shannon
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(2 years, 5 months ago)
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Mr Speaker
Unfortunately, that question is not relevant to Question 1. We will come back to it as a substantive question later.
Jim Shannon (Strangford) (DUP)
When it comes to the integration of health and care services, it is very important that we have early diagnosis. The covid-19 pandemic has shown that there are some 200,000 potential type 2 and type 1 diabetics. What can be done to address the issue of diabetes, speaking as one who is a diabetic?
Sajid Javid
The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to raise that as one of the unintended impacts of the pandemic. The reassurance that I can offer him is that there is close co-operation across the devolved Administrations when it comes to working on those impacts. NHS England is working with the health service in Northern Ireland to see what more can be done.