Written question asked by Keith Vaz (Labour) on Friday, 29 March 2019, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 2 April 2019. It was answered by Caroline Dinenage (Conservative) on Friday, 5 April 2019 on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.
Diabetes: Medical Equipment
- Question
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people with diabetes were prescribed insulin pump therapy through the NHS in (a) 2016-7 (b) 2017-8 and (c) 2018-9 to date.
- Answer
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NHS Digital conducts the National Diabetes Insulin Pump Audit as a part of the National Diabetes Audit (NDA) Programme. Data from this audit shows that the number of people with diabetes attending specialist diabetes services in England in 2016-17 who were using an insulin pump was 9,735. Data for 2017-8 and 2018-9 is not yet available.
It should be noted that disclosure control has been applied to all figures, as per the NDA publication. All numbers are rounded to the nearest five, unless the number is one to seven, in which case it is rounded to five.
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- 238603
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- 2017-19
- Registered interest declared
- Yes
- Subjects
- Diabetes Medical equipment
- Contains statistics
- Yes
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