Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help support people with type 1 diabetes with disordered eating in (a) Staffordshire and (b) other areas that are not included in the pilot scheme.

To support improved treatment and care for people with type 1 diabetes with disordered eating (T1DE) across the National Health Service, NHS England will:

- provide another year of funding for the five T1DE pilot sites, up to March 2026, to ensure sufficient patient numbers to support evaluation;

- review the pilot evaluation findings to inform future national strategy;

- seek additional national investment for T1DE treatment and care through the multi-year Spending Review, from 2026 to 2030;

- share pilot evaluation findings with all integrated care boards (ICBs) and make the case for local investment in T1DE from ICB baseline budgets, including support with potential commissioning approaches, which will be important if further national funding is not secured, and reflective of the fact that treating the consequences of T1DE is already a cost being funded by all ICBs, with the opportunity to improve both treatment and care and reduce activity and costs if the right care model and commissioning arrangements can be agreed; and

- share evidence with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and collaborate with a range of partner organisations on providing wider support for the NHS on T1DE.

In addition, each of the five new pilot areas is submitting quarterly data to the evaluation. The analysis of this data is to be included in a final evaluation report which NHS England expects to be able to publish, once complete, in September 2025.

In Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent there are structured education programmes for both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. All patients diagnosed with type 1 diabetes are invited to join the programme, along with any carers they may have.

The Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB was not part of the T1DE pilot project funded by NHS England. The ICB will work with NHS colleagues to build upon the outcomes from the T1DE pilot.