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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(3 March 2026)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his department has to increase the uptake of annual diabetes health checks.

Asked by:
Dr Allison Gardner (Labour)

Answer

The Government is committed to supporting people with diabetes. Improving the uptake of annual diabetes health checks recommended by National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is a key primary care metric in the NHS Oversight Framework, which is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/nhs-oversight-framework-2025-26/

The framework sets out how NHS England will assess providers and integrated care boards, to identify where support is needed and promote improvement.

NHS England is also working closely with systems within the National Health Service to monitor improvement of achievement rates in delivering the annual diabetes health checks. To help deliver this, NHS England has recently launched a new National Diabetes Audit Care Processes and Treatment Targets dashboard to support systems to benchmark and improve delivery of the health checks.


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