Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 3 May 2018 to Question 139363 on Diabetes, what steps his Department is taking to support NHS England in achieving a measurable reduction in variation in the management and care for people with diabetes.

Building on the National Health Service Diabetes Prevention Programme, NHS England is developing a diabetes management and care programme aimed at reducing variation and improving outcomes for people with diabetes. NHS England is making an additional £44 million available from 2017/18 to support delivery of the programme in four key evidence-based interventions.

NHS England has developed a diabetes dashboard which measures progress in reducing variation and improving outcomes for people with diabetes across a range of key metrics for each of the following priorities:

- Treatment targets (HbA1c, blood glucose and cholesterol levels);

- Diabetes structured education;

- Multidisciplinary footcare teams; and

- Diabetes Inpatient Specialist Nurses.

The dashboard enables National Health Service organisations to view progress at clinical commissioning group, sustainability and transformation partnership, NHS England region and national levels.