Diabetes: Medical Equipment

(asked on 11th July 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the uptake of insulin pumps for people throughout England with type 1 diabetes.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 19th July 2018

Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are responsible for commissioning diabetes services to meet the requirements of their population. In doing so, CCGs need to ensure that the services they provide are fit for purpose, reflect the needs of the local population and are based on the available evidence and take into account national guidelines.

In this case the relevant guidelines are published by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence ‘Evidence-based recommendations on continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (insulin pump therapy) for treating type 1 diabetes in adults and children’ is available at the following link:

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ta151

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