Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will take steps to prepare a successor Diabetes National Service Framework.

NHS England has invested in a major national programme of work to improve outcomes for people with diabetes. It has no plans to prepare a successor to the Diabetes National Service Framework at this time. NHS England have published the NHS RightCare diabetes pathway to support local improvements by defining the core components of an optimal diabetes service for people with diabetes. This is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/rightcare/products/pathways/diabetes-pathway/

The NHS RightCare diabetes pathway takes into account the latest National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines.