Diabetes and Obesity: Medical Treatments

(asked on 19th July 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of using technology based on breathing lower amounts of oxygen while asleep to treat type 2 diabetes and weight loss.


Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
This question was answered on 26th July 2022

No specific assessment has been made. However, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has provided guidance to NHS England on the clinical and cost effectiveness of selected new and established technologies.

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