Diabetes: Nurses
(asked on 2nd June 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether school nurses will have a role in the National Diabetes Prevention Programme.
This question was answered on 9th June 2015
School nurses have a role in the primary prevention of obesity in children and young people. The National Diabetes Prevention Programme is aimed at individuals at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes aged over 18, and as such school nurses will not have a role in this programme.