Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if his Department will re-establish the NHS Diabetes website.

NHS Improving Quality has taken over the functions of NHS Diabetes and has no plans to establish a diabetes specific website. However, the archived NHS Diabetes website can still be viewed.

NHS Improving Quality has a number of programmes of work underway to reduce premature mortality from diabetes and improve the care of people with diabetes including:

- Piloting new pathways of care to detect and manage asymptomatic coronary heart disease in patient groups with diabetic foot disease. The aim is to reduce premature mortality in this group of patients by 600 lives per year from 2015-16;

- Supporting the NHS Health Check programme's ambition to achieve a 66% uptake rate within the eligible population for 2014-15. A key component of these checks is looking for risk factors for diabetes;

- Supporting the implementation of the Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes Strategy;

- Working to achieve patient centred, co-ordinated services for people living with long term conditions, including diabetes; and

- Providing signposting and links to useful improvement resources relating to diabetes.

More information on this work can be found on the NHS Improving Quality website at:

www.nhsiq.nhs.uk