Diabetes: Children

(asked on 12th December 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 his Department is taking to ensure that the symptoms of diabetes in children are identified at the earliest opportunity.


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

General practitioners and other healthcare professionals are trained in identifying the relevant symptoms of diabetes in children.

Information regarding symptoms and getting diagnosed with type 1 diabetes is available on the National Health Service website which can be accessed via the following link:

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/type-1-diabetes/symptoms-and-getting-diagnosed/

Similar information regarding the symptoms and diagnosis of type 2 diabetes is also available on the NHS website at the following link:

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/type-2-diabetes/

NHS England is partnered with Diabetes UK who have been running their 4 T’s campaign to raise awareness of the four most common symptoms of type 1 diabetes (Toilet/Thirsty/Tired/Thinner). Further information is available at the following link:

https://www.diabetes.org.uk/get_involved/campaigning/4-ts-campaign

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