Diabetes: Children
(asked on 8th September 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what change there has been in the number of children diagnosed with diabetes between 2005 and 2013.
This question was answered on 11th September 2014
This information is not collected centrally.
The Health and Social Care Information Centre collects information via the National Diabetes Audit and reports on the provision of core diabetes care. However this does not include a full picture of the number of children diagnosed with diabetes.
It is worth noting that around 97% of children with diabetes have Type 1, which is unrelated to lifestyle factors.