Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to his Answer of 5 February 2019 to Question 213249 on Diabetes: Medical Equipment, what role integrated care systems will play in ensuring that people with diabetes are able to access their preferred glucose meter.

Integrated care systems (ICSs) are partnerships made of National Health Service organisations, local councils and others to take collective responsibility for managing resources, delivering NHS standards, and improving the health of the population they serve. Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are central partners in ICSs. CCGs will continue to be responsible for making commissioning decisions in an ICS. We expect that, working with their partners in an ICS, CCGs will continue to support people with diabetes to access their preferred glucose monitoring device in line with best practice clinical guidance.