Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether measures are in place to guarantee patient choice is taken into account to ensure that people with diabetes are able to access their preferred glucose meter for their condition.

Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are responsible for commissioning diabetes services and technologies for their local populations. They are also expected to take National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines into consideration when making their decisions.

CCGs remain best placed to do this as they are clinically led organisations that have both the local knowledge and local accountability to make these complex commissioning decisions in the best interests of patients.

The Government is committed to giving patients greater choice and control over how they receive their health care, and to empowering patients to shape and manage their own health and care.

The Government publishes an annual Choice Framework to help patients understand the choices they can expect to have. The Choice Framework explains:

- When you have choices about your health care;

- Where to get more information to help you choose; and

- How to complain if you are not offered a choice.