Insulin pumps

YHPHO

Insulin pump audit - final report (8 November 2010)

http://www.yhpho.org.uk/resource/item.aspx?RID=91531

Parliamentary discussions

Health: Insulin (12 November 2013)

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2013-11-12a.174728.h

Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford, Conservative)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps his Department is taking to monitor access to insulin pump therapy in (a) Stafford and (b) England.

Jane Ellison (Battersea, Conservative)

The Department does not monitor access to insulin pump therapy and does not hold this information centrally.

It is for NHS England to ensure that commissioners and providers make insulin pumps available for those people with diabetes that meet the criteria recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).

The first ever United Kingdom-wide audit of insulin pump use was sponsored by the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists, Diabetes UK and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation with support from NICE. It involves the participation of 97% of hospital trusts that provide insulin pump services.