Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure his Department is (a) aware of new technologies for diabetes treatment and (b) enables the timely (i) funding and (ii) adoption of those technologies.

In the NHS Long Term Plan, NHS England committed to both improving the pipeline of innovation and speeding up the uptake and spread, so that proven and affordable innovations get to patients faster. This will include setting up a new advisory service for innovators, linked to the Academic Health Science Networks and bringing together in one place all ‘horizon-scanning’ activities. The uptake of proven, affordable innovations will be accelerated through a new Medtech funding mandate for health technology products which have been assessed as cost saving by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.