Diabetes

(asked on 21st October 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in (a) St Albans, (b) Hertfordshire and (c) England and Wales have type 1 or 2 diabetes; and what steps he is taking to ensure that (i) there is early diagnosis and treatment of both type 1 and 2 diabetes and (ii) that prevention measures for type 2 are in place.


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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 29th October 2015

The number of people diagnosed with diabetes in St Albans, Hertfordshire and England and Wales living with type 1 or type 2 diabetes is shown in the table below.



Number of people diagnosed with diabetes 2013/14

St Albans

4,833

Hertfordshire

50,047

England

2,814,004*

Wales

177,212*


Source: Public Health Outcomes Framework http://www.phoutcomes.info/

Note: * represents all patients aged 17 and over who have been diagnosed with diabetes and included on general practitioner (GP) registers. No distinction is made in the type of diabetes that has been diagnosed, i.e. type 1 or type 2 diabetes.



The NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme (DPP) is a joint initiative between NHS England, Public Health England and Diabetes UK, that aims to deliver an evidence based behavioural programme to support people to reduce their risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The NHS Health Check programme provides an opportunity to help prevent and detect type 2 diabetes, with an estimated 20,000 new cases of diabetes and kidney disease identified earlier each year.


Improving outcomes for those at risk of and with diabetes is of great concern to this Government. Building on the DPP, the Department is developing its plans in this area. These will be published in due course.


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