Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 62117

Diabetes: Screening

Tabled: 23 June 2025
Answered: 30 June 2025

Question

Sarah Bool

ConservativeSouth Northamptonshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of introducing a universal screening programme for type 1 diabetes on the incidence of diabetic ketoacidosis in children and young ad

Answer

Ashley Dalton
In the United Kingdom, national screening programmes are introduced based on the recommendations of the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC), an independent scientific advisory committee which advises ministers and the National Health Service in all f...

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