Diabetes: Children
(asked on 14th April 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people under the age of 18 were diagnosed with diabetes in each of the last five years.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 22nd April 2022
The following table shows the number of people in England under the age of 18 years old diagnosed with diabetes by type in each of the five years.
Diagnosis year | Type 1 | Type 2 and other |
2017 | 2,975 | 490 |
2018 | 2,975 | 515 |
2019 | 3,145 | 605 |
2020 | 3,620 | 570 |
2021 | 4,095 | 785 |
Source: National Diabetes Audit
Note:
Data was collected from primary care with general practitioner practice participation at 95% or over for all the Audit years.