Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 22 April 2022.
Carla Lockhart
DUP, Upper Bann
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people under the age of 18 were diagnosed with diabetes in each of the last five years.
Maria Caulfield
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care
The following table shows the number of people in England under the age of 18 years old diagnosed with diabetes by type in each of the five years.
Diagnosis year | Type 1 | Type 2 and other |
2017 | 2,975 | 490 |
2018 | 2,975 | 515 |
2019 | 3,145 | 605 |
2020 | 3,620 | 570 |
2021 | 4,095 | 785 |
Source: National Diabetes Audit
Note:
Data was collected from primary care with general practitioner practice participation at 95% or over for all the Audit years.
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