Campaign reply - Diabetes is Serious - please attend this important event in Parliament

Thank you for contacting my office. I very much appreciate you getting in touch.

Unfortunately, due to urgent business in Parliament, I was not able to attend this important event.

A part of a strong healthcare system is ensuring that people with diabetes get the care that they need. It is unacceptable that so many people living with diabetes feel that they are not getting the proper care that they need.

Since 2017/18, NHS England and NHS Improvement has made around £150 million of transformation funding available to support projects from individual Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), CCG collaborations and Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) to reduce variation in access to services and improve outcomes for people living with diabetes, focusing on four evidence-based intervention areas:

1.    Ensuring patients have access to specialist multidisciplinary footcare teams with an aim of reducing amputations

2.    Ensuring patients have access to diabetes inpatient specialist nursing teams in hospitals to improve the quality of their care

3.    Reducing variation in the achievement of the three NICE recommended treatment targets (HbA1c (blood sugar), cholesterol and blood pressure) for adults and one treatment target (HbA1c) for children

4.    Expanding provision of structured education (including digital options) to better support patient self-management.

 

The issue of diabetes is one that I take very seriously. As MP, one of my top priorities is improving health and social care in Truro and Falmouth. As we leave the worst of the pandemic behind us, I am committed to strengthening our healthcare system and improving the lives of all residents.

 

Please keep in touch, and if I can be of further assistance with any other matter, do not hesitate to contact me.