Written question asked by Allison Gardner (Labour) on Tuesday, 3 March 2026, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 5 March 2026. It was answered by Sharon Hodgson (Labour) on Monday, 30 March 2026 on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.
Diabetes: Screening
- Question
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his department has to increase the uptake of annual diabetes health checks.
- Answer
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The Government is committed to supporting people with diabetes. Improving the uptake of annual diabetes health checks recommended by National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is a key primary care metric in the NHS Oversight Framework, which is available at the following link:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/nhs-oversight-framework-2025-26/
The framework sets out how NHS England will assess providers and integrated care boards, to identify where support is needed and promote improvement.
NHS England is also working closely with systems within the National Health Service to monitor improvement of achievement rates in delivering the annual diabetes health checks. To help deliver this, NHS England has recently launched a new National Diabetes Audit Care Processes and Treatment Targets dashboard to support systems to benchmark and improve delivery of the health checks.
Secondary information
- Type
- Written question
- Reference
- 117593
- Session
- 2024-26
- Subjects
- Diabetes Screening Take-up
- Contains statistics
- Yes
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