Diabetes: Medical Treatments

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Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of the use of artificial pancreas devices for the treatment of people with Type 1 diabetes.


Answered by
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Steve Brine
This question was answered on 23rd October 2018

Artificial pancreas devices are an emerging technology. The Medtronic 670G, currently available in the United States of America, is also soon to become available in the United Kingdom. This is a hybrid artificial pancreas device that provides some automated insulin delivery between meals and overnight, but still requires manual insulin delivery with food. Some supporting data are available which suggest that the device can increase the time period in which glucose values are within target range.

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