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<p><del class="ministerial">NHS England has recently announced plans to enable consistent
national availability of the Freestyle Libre Flash Glucose Monitoring device according
to published guidance.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">Clinical commissioning
groups (CCGs) can purchase any available blood glucose monitoring which has been approved
for sale on the open market. The availability of AccuChek Expert, Dexcom G6 and Eversense
XL products is a matter for CCGs who are primarily responsible for commissioning diabetes
services, to meet the requirements of their population. In doing so, they need to
ensure that the services they provide are fit for purpose, reflect the needs of the
local population, are based on the available evidence and consider national guidelines.
NHS England engages with technology companies developing products that may be of significant
benefit to those with diabetes to seek to increase their availability to patients
where appropriate.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The Department does not collate
data on the number of patients using these devices nationally or by clinical commissioning
group.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> <p><ins class="ministerial">NHS Digital
publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics for England.
These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs),
but not staff working in primary care or in general practitioner surgeries, local
authorities or other providers.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The attached
table shows the number of paediatric mental health nurses who work in National Health
Service trusts and CCGs in England as at the last day of each specified month from
May 2010 to July 2018 (latest available), full time equivalent.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Paediatric
mental health nurses include qualified nurses & health visitors within the care
settings 'Community Mental Health' and 'Other Mental Health', with Tertiary Areas
of Work 'Child and Adolescent Psychiatry' and 'Child Psychotherapy'.</ins></p><p><ins
class="ministerial">The Area of Work reproduced here is that submitted by individual
NHS organisations and has not been subject to the types of validation procedures undertaken
by NHS Digital in relation to many other data items used in official publications.
As such, these figures should be treated with a degree of caution.</ins></p></ins></p>
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