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<p>Preventing diabetes and promoting the best possible care for people with diabetes
is a priority for this Government. NHS England is developing a diabetes management
and care programme aimed at reducing variation and improving outcomes for people with
diabetes. An additional £44 million Transformation Funding is being made available
to support the delivery of the programme which will focus on four areas: reducing
variation in the achievement of the three National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
treatment targets, improving take up of structured education, improving access to
multi-disciplinary foot care teams for people with diabetic foot disease and improving
access to specialist inpatient support.</p><p> </p><p>95% of children with diabetes
have type 1 diabetes and there have been year-on-year improvements in care process
delivery and in HbA1c reduction for this group. Further information is available in
the National Paediatric Diabetes Audit at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2018-07/npda_annual_report_2016_-_2017_april_2018_final_updated_2.pdf"
target="_blank">https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2018-07/npda_annual_report_2016_-_2017_april_2018_final_updated_2.pdf</a></p><p>
</p><p>For children with type 2 diabetes, the Government is committed to halving childhood
obesity by 2030, which was recently reiterated in the document ‘Prevention is better
than cure’ published on 5 November. The upcoming National Health Service long-term
plan will have prevention at its core and build on existing work to keep people healthy
and well. Chapter 2 of the Government’s Childhood Obesity Plan also aims to tackle
childhood obesity and outlines the actions the Government will take towards its goal
of halving childhood obesity and reducing the gap in obesity between children from
the most and least deprived areas by 2030.</p>
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