Diabetes: Orthopaedics and Podiatry
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information he holds on (a) rates of diabetic foot screening and (b) diabetes-related lower limb amputations by (i) region and (ii) other local areas.
Answered by Ashley Dalton
NHS England continues to deliver the National Diabetes Audit (NDA) and provide footcare data, which is available in the NDA Core and National Diabetes Footcare Audit data dashboards, at the following link:
A trend of improvement in foot surveillance is evidenced by the NDA’s core data for 2023/24, showing that the percentage of people with type 1 diabetes who received general practice foot checks in England reached 70.6%, versus 67.2% in 2022/23. The proportion of people with type 2 diabetes who received foot check examinations in 2023/24 was 81.3%, up from 78.8% in 2022/23.
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