Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department has issued for GPs on managing the causes of gestational diabetes.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has published a clinical guideline on ‘Diabetes in pregnancy: management from preconception to the postnatal period’; this was published in February 2015. The guideline covers managing diabetes and its complications in women who are planning pregnancy or are already pregnant. It aims to improve the diagnosis of gestational diabetes and help women with diabetes to self-manage their blood glucose levels before and during pregnancy.