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 effectiveness of the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme.

A first progress report covering early implementation of the programme, including numbers of referrals and uptake in its first year, was published as a short report in Diabetic Medicine and is available at the following link:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/dme.13562

The analyses show that referral numbers and percentage uptake are in excess of prior modelled values. Characteristics of attendees also suggest that the programme is reaching those who are both at greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes and who typically access healthcare less effectively.