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.
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.