Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of funding provided by the Diabetes Transformation Fund on health outcomes in Leicester.

The Sustainability and Transformation Partnership was successful in obtaining diabetes transformation funding to make improvements in respect of three treatment targets, structured education, and inpatient care, specifically:

- Improving achievement of the treatment targets (HbA1c, blood pressure and cholesterol) and reducing variation between clinical commissioning groups and between general practitioner practices, with the aim of resulting in improvements in glycaemic control and psychosocial wellbeing;

- Increasing uptake of diabetes structured education with the aim of a reduced risk of diabetes-related complications; and

- Increasing availability of diabetes inpatient specialist nurses with the aim of reducing lengths of stay for inpatients with diabetes.

We would expect local commissioners to assess the impact of these improvements in the coming years.