Diabetes
(asked on 2nd June 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in each age group were diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in each of the last five years.
Information from the National Diabetes Audit (NDA) on the number of patients registered in primary care that were newly diagnosed with diabetes in the 2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-13 audits is shown in the following table. Figures for 2013-14 are not yet available.
Number of people newly diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in England and Wales
Audit year | Under 40 | 40 to 64 | 65 to 79 | 80 and over | Total |
2009-10 | 5,966 | 1,522 | 323 | 65 | 7,876 |
2010-11 | 6,341 | 1,567 | 306 | 56 | 8,270 |
2011-12 | 6,917 | 1,677 | 303 | 55 | 8,952 |
2012-13 | 5,538 | 1,305 | 221 | 48 | 7,112 |
It must be noted that this information is for England and Wales combined and not all practices participate. NDA 2012-2013 comprised data from nearly 6,000 practices in England and Wales and 1.9 million people with diabetes in England. The Quality Outcomes Framework states there are approximately 2.7 million people aged 17 or over with diabetes in England alone.
Due to the 15 month audit period from January to March, a patient could be classed as newly diagnosed in two audit periods, for example if the patient were diagnosed in 2012 and appeared in the 2011-12 and the 2012-13 audit they could be counted twice, once in each year.