Diabetes: Health Services

Department of Health written question – answered at on 24 July 2015.

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Photo of Lord Morris of Aberavon Lord Morris of Aberavon Labour

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the regional variations in people with Type 1 Diabetes meeting very few treatment targets; what proposals they have to remedy this; and over what timescale.

Photo of Lord Morris of Aberavon Lord Morris of Aberavon Labour

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the reasons only 41 per cent of those with Type 1 Diabetes received the eight recommended care processes, compared with 62 per cent of those with Type 2 Diabetes.

Photo of Lord Prior of Brampton Lord Prior of Brampton The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health

Despite the overall improvement in the quality of NHS services for people with both type 1 and type 2 diabetes over recent years, variations in the delivery of management and care still remain.

We have taken action to address this through the publication of the Healthier Lives diabetes tool which can be found on the Public Health England website at the following address:

http://healthierlives.phe.org.uk/

This interactive tool provides information on the variation in the treatment of diabetes, including type 1, at a local level. In addition, as part of NHS England’s ongoing assurance of clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), progress against the CCG outcome indicator set, which includes an indicator on delivery of the eight care processes, is reviewed.

Driving improvements in the management and care of people with diabetes, including reducing variation is of great concern to this Government. We will put forward our plans in due course.

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