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 the creation of a central appraisal system to monitor variations in the (a) uptake and (b) access to (i) medical devices and (ii) apps for diabetes management and treatment.

NHS England has informed us that their Diabetes Programme team have not made an assessment of the potential merits of a central appraisal system to monitor variations in uptake, or access to medical devices, or apps for diabetes management and treatment across the National Health Service.