Diabetes

(asked on 28th January 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of (a) children and (b) adults were Type 2 diabetic in (i) each primary care trust in London, (ii) each London borough, (iii) London and (iv) England in (A) 2000, (B) 2005, (C) 2010 and (D) 2015.


Answered by
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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 2nd February 2016

Data for children on Type 2 diabetes is collected from paediatric diabetes clinics by the National Paediatric Diabetes Audit (NPDA). Data are available from 2011, but not by primary care trust (PCT) or clinical commissioning group (CCG). When making comparisons it should be remembered that more units participated in the most recent audit than earlier ones. These data are found at:

http://www.rcpch.ac.uk/national-paediatric-diabetes-audit-npda.

Diagnosed diabetes prevalence in England is taken from the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) and represents all patients aged 17 and over who have been diagnosed with diabetes and included on general practice (GP) registers. No distinction is made in the type of diabetes that has been diagnosed, i.e. Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes. However, it is estimated approximately 90% of all adults with diabetes have Type 2 diabetes (source: National Diabetes Audit).

The proportion of all people on the diabetes register in 2005/06 was 3.55% for England and 3.60% for London. In 2010/2011 and 2014/2015 the data are presented as the proportion of people aged 17 and over on the diabetes register and are not directly comparable to the data in 2005/06. In 2010/11 the proportion of people aged 17 on the diabetes register was 5.50% for England and 5.40% for London, in 2014/15 the proportion of people aged 17 on the diabetes register was 6.40% for England and 6.10% for London.

The data in QOF is presented by PCT and GP registers in 2005/06 and 2010/11 and by CCG and GP registers in 2014/15 and is not available by local authority. Data at a subnational level can be access from the Health and Social Care Information Services website:

http://www.hscic.gov.uk/qof

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