Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help prevent cases of type 2 diabetes.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme identifies people at risk of developing type 2 diabetes, and refers them to a nine-month lifestyle change programme, which has been proven to reduce a person’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes by 37%.
The NHS Health Check is England’s flagship cardiovascular disease prevention programme, which is offered to eligible people aged 40 to 74 years old, and includes an assessment for type 2 diabetes. If an individual is found to be at risk of type 2 diabetes, they are referred on to their general practice for further clinical assessment, treatment if appropriate, or further referred to programmes such as the National Diabetes Prevention Programme, to help reduce their risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
Jan. 10 2024
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Asked by: Jim Shannon (Democratic Unionist Party - Strangford)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in the last three years, broken down by (a) age and (b) gender.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Data relating to the incidence and prevalence of diabetes in England and Wales is captured by the National Diabetes Audit Report. The most current figures published cover the period 2017-18 to 2021-22, which have been published online and can be found on the NHS Digital website:
Asked by: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of high rates of childhood obesity on future diabetes rates; and what assessment they have made of the impact that this will have on the NHS's future spend on diabetes.
Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
NHS England has data from national diabetes audits showing the increasing numbers of young people being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes over the past five years. NHS England knows that 93.5% of children with Type 2 diabetes that are under the care of paediatric diabetes units are overweight or obese, with a body mass index above the 85th centile after correction for age and gender.
Core20PLUS5 – Children and Young People includes diabetes as a key clinical area and has two key areas of clinical focus, namely to increase access to real time continuous glucose monitoring and insulin pumps for children and young people in the most deprived quintiles and from ethnic minority backgrounds, and increase the proportion of children and young people with Type 2 diabetes receiving all the care processes recommended in guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.
Key diabetes health metrics, such as blood glucose levels, are poorest in young adults aged between 19 and 25 years old. To address this age-related health inequality, 15 ‘Transition and Young Adult’ pilots were established by the NHS Diabetes Programme in 2022-2025 to test models of care for young adults with diabetes and those transitioning from paediatric to adult diabetes services. The pilots will be evaluated to inform the evidence base on how to best deliver care and improve outcomes for this group.
Asked by: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour - Slough)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she is taking steps to promote collaboration between (a) the NHS, (b) community organisations and (c) health experts to tackle diabetes health inequalities.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The NHS Diabetes Programme (NDP) develops policies and provides leadership and support to integrated care boards (ICBs), to improve diabetes care and outcomes. The NDP routinely engages with people with firsthand experience of diabetes, sector stakeholders, and health experts in order to inform policy, and seeks input from a broad range of communities to support development of projects that aim to tackle variation and inequalities.
The NDP collaborates extensively with Diabetes UK, who conducts research with people who have lived experience of diabetes on behalf of the programme, for specific projects, and participates in the programme’s decision making at a board level. The NDP has also collaborated with Diabetes UK’s Tackling Inequality Commission, which engaged with communities, community organisations, and health experts. A report was released of the findings in November 2023.
The National Health Service statement on information on health inequalities sets out a description of the powers available to relevant NHS bodies to collect, analyse, and publish information, and the views of NHS England about how those powers should be exercised. The following diabetes metrics are included: the care process delivery, measuring variation between the percentage of people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes receiving all eight care processes, reported by deprivation and ethnicity; and the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme, measuring variation between the percentage of NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme referrals from the most deprived quintile and the percentage of the type 2 diabetic population from the most deprived quintile.
ICBs and other NHS bodies will be required to include in their annual reports for 2023/24 and 2024/25, information that shows they have exercised their functions in accordance with the NHS legal statement. They will also need to publish reports on the information collected, how the data has been used to guide action, and summarise the inequalities it reveals.
The NDP ensures local health care systems, including those with rural communities, can benchmark and identify inequalities in diabetes care and outcomes through National Diabetes Audit data that contains demographic information such as age, deprivation, and ethnicity. Examples of the data can be found in the National Diabetes Audit Dashboards. The NDP also allocates funding to support the costs of diabetes clinical lead posts in local health systems, with a key priority of supporting improvement in addressing health inequalities at the local level.
Require schools teach students about diabetes prevention
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There is a lot of work going into preventing type 2 diabetes. The NHS runs a Diabetes Prevention Programme that identifies people at risk of developing type 2 diabetes and refers them onto a nine-month lifestyle change programme. We want schools to be required to run similar programmes for students.
Found: advertising of unhealthy food that we think more is needed to reduce the risk of people getting type 2 diabetes
Oct. 16 2008
Source Page: Table showing data on the incidence of diabetes for 2007-08, broken down by 16 "Quality and Outcomes Framework" (QOF) codes and by PCT. 4 p.Found: Table showing data on the incidence of diabetes for 2007-08, broken down by 16 "Quality and Outcomes
Asked by: Earl of Dundee (Conservative - Excepted Hereditary)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what partnerships and expedients they are encouraging to progress diabetes type one stem cell and non-stem-cell research.
Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department is delivering improvements as part of the Vision for the Future of UK Clinical Research Delivery to make the United Kingdom a world leader in clinical research, attracting investment from commercial companies to deliver cutting edge research in a range of disease areas, including diabetes. For example, we introduced the National Contract Value Review to standardise costing and contracting for commercial research in the National Health Service.
This has reduced set up times for clinical research by a third which makes running research in the UK more efficient for commercial companies.
The National Institute for Health and Care Research’s (NIHR) Clinical Research Network (CRN) supports conduct of clinical research in the NHS, providing tailored support for both non-commercial organisations and the life sciences industry. The CRN has a Diabetes Speciality Group to support research across key priorities in diabetes.
The NIHR works in partnership with Diabetes UK to deliver the joint UK Strategy for Clinical and Applied Diabetes Research. The NIHR also funds a Global Health Research Unit on Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease in South Asia, creating partnerships between research organisations in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the UK.
Oct. 13 2009
Source Page: Table showing Primary Care Trust expenditure on diabetes for the year 2007/08. 6 p.Found: Table showing Primary Care Trust expenditure on diabetes for the year 2007/08. 6 p.
Dec. 09 2008
Source Page: Table showing instances of exception reporting working on diabetes in each primary care trust areafor the years 2005/06 to 2007/08, ranked in descending order. 12 p.Found: Table showing instances of exception reporting working on diabetes in each primary care trust areafor