Diabetes
(asked on 11th June 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of people who were diagnosed with diabetes in (a) Strangford constituency and (b) in each of the devolved nations in each of the last five years.
NHS Digital have provided the following data showing the number of people who were diagnosed with type 1, or type 2 and other, diabetes in each of the five calendar years 2012 to 2016 in England.
Calendar year | Newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes | Newly diagnosed with type 2 and other diabetes |
2012 | 6,920 | 167,780 |
2013 | 6,890 | 183,370 |
2014 | 6,695 | 172,520 |
2015 | 7,345 | 194,640 |
2016 | 7,740 | 203,145 |
Source: National Diabetes Audit (NDA)
Disclosure control has been applied to all figures, as per the NDA publication - all numbers are rounded to the nearest five, unless the number is one to seven, in which case it is rounded to ‘five’.
Data for devolved administrations, including Strangford constituency, is not centrally held as health is a devolved matter.