Diabetes

(asked on 21st November 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions his Department has had with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence about improving clinical guidelines on managing hypoglycaemia among patients with type 2 diabetes.


Answered by
George Freeman Portrait
George Freeman
This question was answered on 26th November 2014

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is responsible for regularly reviewing its guidance to ensure that it reflects the latest available evidence. Ministers have had no such discussions with NICE on its guidance.

NHS England is now responsible for referring new topics for development through NICE’s clinical guideline work programme.

We understand that NICE plans to publish an updated clinical guideline on the management of type 2 diabetes in adults in 2015. The scope for this clinical guideline update was developed in consultation with stakeholders and states that it will not consider the management of hypoglycaemia, unless this is as a consequence of pharmacological interventions for hyperglycaemia. The final scope for the clinical guideline update is available at:

www.nice.org.uk/guidance/gid-cgwave0612/documents/type-2-diabetes-final-scope2

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