Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the effect on people living with diabetes of the changes to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) guidelines on driving and diabetes given that NICE recommends that healthcare professionals take the DVLA’s guidance into account when offering glucose monitoring technology.

Whilst the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency is reviewing its approach to glucose monitoring technology, the current provision is that drivers are still required to test using finger prick/capillary glucose values, rather than using values from flash glucose monitoring.