Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of providing additional funding for real-time continuous glucose monitoring.

The Department has no plans to provide additional funding for real time glucose monitoring. NHS England is responsible for commissioning diabetes services and has informed us that, taking into account the overall impact on healthcare costs from improved control of diabetes, the overall costs from the use of continuous glucose monitoring can be lower than those that arise from self-monitoring. Therefore its provision can be cost effective without requiring additional investment. However, this cost-benefit analysis only holds true for particular cohorts of patients.