Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 85094

Diabetes: Health Services

Tabled: 27 October 2025
Answered: 5 November 2025

Question

Fabian Hamilton

LabourLeeds North East

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps NHS England has taken to help identify (a) children and (b) adults at risk of pre-symptomatic Type 1 diabetes; and what assessment has been made of (i) the uptake and (ii) effecti

Answer

Ashley Dalton
The National Institute for Healthcare Research is funding the EarLy Surveillance for Autoimmune diabetes (ELSA) study into the feasibility of screening for type 1 diabetes in children aged three to 13 years old. The ELSA study has tested over 24,000 peopl...

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