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1134002

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date	24/06/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Diabetes: Medical Equipment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has any plans to reintroduce blood glucose test strips on prescription for Type 2 diabetics.
tabling member constituency	Crewe and Nantwich
tabling member printed	Laura Smith
uin	268495
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2019 answer text <p>Blood glucose test strips are available on prescription for people with type 2 diabetes. However, it is for clinical commissioning groups to make decisions on the commissioning of health services that best meet the needs of their local population, taking into account local priorities and needs.</p><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has published guidance on the management of type 2 Diabetes in adults. This guideline states:</p><p>“1.6.13 Do not routinely offer self-monitoring of blood glucose levels for adults with type 2 diabetes unless:</p><ul><li>the person is on insulin or</li><li>there is evidence of hypoglycaemic episodes or</li><li>the person is on oral medication that may increase their risk of hypoglycaemia while driving or operating machinery or</li><li>the person is pregnant, or is planning to become pregnant. For more information, see the NICE guideline on diabetes in pregnancy (<a href="http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng3" target="_blank">http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng3</a> ). There have been no recent changes to prescribing recommendations, although NHS England have recently consulted on proposals to prescribe test strips only that fall below a certain cost threshold.”</li></ul><p>More information is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng28/chapter/1-Recommendations#blood-glucose-management-2" target="_blank">https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng28/chapter/1-Recommendations#blood-glucose-management-2</a></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 02/07/2019 16:27:24 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4648 label Biography information for Laura Smith

1134003

registered interest
date	24/06/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Diabetes: Medical Equipment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure all Type 2 diabetics have access to a glucose monitoring blood test every three months as standard.
tabling member constituency	Crewe and Nantwich
tabling member printed	Laura Smith
uin	268496
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2019 answer text <p>Clinical commissioning groups are responsible for commissioning diabetes services for their local populations. They are also expected to take National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines into consideration when making their decisions.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 02/07/2019 16:28:39 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4648 label Biography information for Laura Smith

1130040

registered interest
date	05/06/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Diabetes: Medical Equipment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the NHS Long Term Plan and NHS Planning Guidance commitments for 2019-20, what progress his Department has made on ensuring that patients with Type 1 diabetes benefit from life-changing flash glucose monitors in line with clinical guidelines; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	260645
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2019 answer text <p>Glucose monitoring technology, such as flash glucose monitors like Freestyle Libre will continue to be available to those meeting the relevant clinical criteria.</p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan announced that the National Health Service will ensure that, in line with clinical guidelines, eligible patients with type 1 diabetes benefit from life changing flash glucose monitors from April 2019, ending the variation patients in some parts of the country are facing.</p><p>NHS England has published detailed criteria and supporting guidance at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/flash-glucose-monitoring-national-arrangements-funding-v1.1.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/flash-glucose-monitoring-national-arrangements-funding-v1.1.pdf</a></p><p>Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) will be reimbursed for the cost of flash glucose monitoring sensors for those who meet these criteria, which could amount to up to 20% of their type 1 diabetes populations. CCGs can also locally choose to fund flash glucose monitoring for other patients with diabetes. The guidance advises that as part of their annual review process, patients with diabetes should be assessed for suitability for flash glucose monitoring. This process can also form part of a review for a different purpose, if that occurs earlier. This will promote a systematic approach to increasing take up.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 14/06/2019 13:16:04 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth