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 that insulin is delivered to diabetic patients that are self-isolating during the covid-19 outbreak.

Patients who are required to self-isolate during the COVID-19 pandemic due to a medical condition as identified by NHS England and NHS Improvement will have any medication that they require delivered to their homes. These patients will receive a letter to notify them of this provision and how they can access it. If patients do not currently have their prescriptions delivered, they can arrange this by:

- Asking someone who can pick up their prescription from the local pharmacy; and

- Contacting their pharmacy to ask them to arrange for their prescription to be delivered to their home. This may be by a volunteer who we have vouched for.

Diabetes is not currently included within the list of conditions which requires a patient to self-isolate. Diabetic patients can ask somebody to pick up their prescription for them, order from an online pharmacy that delivers, or use their local community pharmacy’s usual delivery service where available.