From 1st April 2019, Abbott’s flash glucose monitoring (the FreeStyle Libre sensor) should be available on prescription across the UK to everyone who meets the NHS criteria, no matter where you live. This is a huge step forward for people with Type 1 read more »

To mark the start of NHS England’s Type 2 Diabetes Prevention Week, which ran 1-7 April, Diabetes UK released new analysis that showed that one person is diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes every three minutes in England and Wales. Just over 200,000 people read more »

People with diabetes account for 15% of inpatients in England, according to an audit published by NHS Diabetes. Analysing clinical data of over 12,000 inpatients with diabetes from 206 hospitals as well as nearly 5,000 patient questionnaires, the ‘National read more »