Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it a requirement that all care home providers routinely check the blood sugar levels of their diabetic occupants.

The Government has no plans to make it a requirement that all care home providers routinely check the blood sugar levels of their diabetic occupants.

Where there is a need to address the care of older people with diabetes who are resident in care homes we would expect all local health economies to ensure that there is appropriate monitoring and managing of blood sugar levels and for health and care partners to work together to achieve this.

The NHS Long Term Plan has set out plans to upgrade National Health Service support to all care home residents who would benefit by 2023/24.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) monitors, inspects and regulates the quality of adult social services. Everyone has the right to receive safe, high-quality care, and if the CQC find instances where care has fallen short of this, they will use their powers to make sure people get the services they are entitled to.