Diabetes: Medical Treatments

(asked on 7th December 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what comparative assessment his Department has made of the cost of treatment for (a) comas and (b) other severe episodes of Type 1 diabetes and the cost of surgically implanted glucose monitoring devices.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 14th December 2017

There is no comparative assessment on the cost of treatment for either comas or other severe episodes of Type 1 diabetes, or on the cost of surgically implanted glucose monitoring devices.

Treatments may be brought into routine use in the National Health Service after their cost-effectiveness has been appropriately demonstrated. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is responsible for assessing new technologies and interventional procedures.

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