Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to improve the availability of training for GPs on recognising and managing type 1 diabetes in infants.

The Getting It Right First Time National Report for Diabetes: Children and Young Adults, published in July 2026, sets out the training requirements for delivering high-quality diabetes care and the processes that should be put in place to deliver that training. Further information is available at the following link:

Children-and-Young-Adults-Diabetes-report-July-2026-UPDATED-04.08.26.pdf