Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what research his Department has commissioned into integrated care models for Type 1 diabetes; and what the effect of that research has been on the provision of care for people with Type 1 diabetes.

The Department’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) has funded research into diabetes care: for example, a Comprehensive Longitudinal Assessment of Salford Integrated Care: a study of the implementation and effectiveness of a new model of care for long-term conditions and Improving outcomes for local people with type 1 diabetes mellitus.

Information on individual projects funded by the NIHR can be found at the following link:

https://www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/programmes/

NHS England has developed the diabetes transformation fund to target a number of evidence-based interventions which have the potential to be scaled up across England to deliver patient benefits, including optimal care provision, and to support the long-term sustainability of services.