Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps are being taken to (a) improve insulin initiation in primary care throughout Northern Ireland and (b) reduce clinical inertia among type 1 diabetes patients.

As health is a devolved matter, it would be for the relevant Department in Northern Ireland to provide information on the improvement of insulin initiation in primary care throughout Northern Ireland.

Clinical inertia does not arise in the same way for type 1 diabetes or have the same known body of evidence as that for type 2 diabetes. People with type 1 diabetes require standard treatment with insulin and doses will be adjusted as appropriate to the clinical presentation.