Diabetes: Health Services

(asked on 16th November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the potential for individual intervention to achieve behaviour change to prevent type-2 diabetes.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 23rd November 2017

In 2015, Public Health England commissioned a systematic review and meta-analysis assessing the effectiveness of pragmatic lifestyle interventions for the prevention of type 2 diabetes in routine practice.

The review identified that individual behaviour change intervention which are intensive and long-term on average resulted in 26% lower incidence of diabetes and an average 1.57kg weight loss.

The evidence review supported the case for a national diabetes prevention programme and formed the basis of the specification for the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme, which was rolled out in 2016.

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