Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to assess the effect on improving the treatment of diabetes of the transformation funding for diabetes services; and if he will make a statement.

NHS England is developing a diabetes transformation dashboard which will be used to monitor outcomes of the allocations made through the transformation funding. The diabetes transformation dashboard will pull together data from a number of sources to enable short-term indicators of effectiveness, as well as long-term outcomes to be monitored.

NHS England developed a Best Possible Value framework to inform the allocation of funding to clinical commissioning groups and Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships. This approach aimed to place consideration of value to populations, to patients and to taxpayers at the heart of decision-making. It aimed to identify where the potential for improvement was greatest. The approach to allocation of funding also included consideration of existing inequalities in service provision.