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 make it easier to ensure that providers of diabetes structured education services are able to (a) upload data and (b) integrate information with NHS systems.

Where structured diabetes educational programmes are offered from, or delivered in, general practice (GP), the capability to encode this activity is available in all of the GP principal systems, and this coded data contributes to the National Diabetes audit. While there are currently no systems in place for external providers of diabetes educational services to upload this data to GP systems or any national repository, this type of capability will in future be developed into the GP patient record through interface work which is currently in development.