Diabetes: Medical Equipment
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase access to continuous glucose monitors for people with diabetes.
Answered by Ashley Dalton
There are currently over 200,000 people living with diabetes in England who benefit from real-time continuous glucose monitoring (CGM)
In order to help integrated care boards (ICBs) improve access to CGM to eligible people, data is now collected as part of the National Diabetes Audit. NHS England routinely publishes this data in the NDA Core Quarterly dashboard in 2025/26, which provides the data insights ICBs require, including data on CGM uptake, variation, and health inequalities. Further information on this is available at the following link:
https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/national-diabetes-audit
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