PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Diabetes: Ethnic Groups (3 February 2020)

Local health economies are allocated places on the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme (NHS DPP) based on type 2 diabetes prevalence, ethnicity and deprivation in their communities to support equity of access to the programme. In 2019 NHS England re-procured the NHS DPP, taking the opportunity to include an outcome payment for providers when they retain people from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) populations on the programme, and to implement digital services, which are likely to be of greater benefit proportionally to BAME people as they are likely to be younger and of working age when they become at risk of type 2 diabetes.