Diabetes: Dulwich and West Norwood

(asked on 17th October 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were diagnosed with diabetes in Dulwich and West Norwood constituency in each of the last five years.


Answered by
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Will Quince
This question was answered on 28th October 2022

The following table shows the number of people that were diagnosed with diabetes in Dulwich and West Norwood constituency in each of the calendar years from 2016 to 2020, broken down by diabetes type.

Year of diagnosis

Number of people diagnosed with diabetes

Type 1

Type 2 and Other

2016

15

595

2017

20

340

2018

20

520

2019

20

325

2020

15

285

Source: National Diabetes Audit

Notes:

  1. A person may have more than 1 diabetes diagnosis within the National Diabetes Audit. In this case, an algorithm is used to derive the best diagnosis date and diabetes type for each person. This is used in the analysis above.
  2. Disclosure control has been applied to all figures, as per the National Diabetes Audit publication – all numbers are rounded to the nearest 5, unless the number is 1 to 7, in which case it is rounded to ‘5’.
  3. Diabetes type is reported as ‘Type 1’ and ‘Type 2 and other’ within the National Diabetes Audit.
    1. ‘Type 1’ includes where a person is recorded as having Type 1 diabetes in the National Diabetes Audit.
    2. ‘Type 2 and other’ includes where a person is recorded as having Type 2 diabetes, Maturity-onset Diabetes of the Young, other or non-specified diabetes in the National Diabetes Audit.

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