Diabetes Prevention Programme, coming next year to England.

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CurlyCockney
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I just read this report from Public Health England, which says that from next year there will be more NHS help available regarding diet and exercise to help prevent diabetes, and thought it may be of interest to people here.

Duncan Selbie, Chief Executive of PHE, said:

We know how to lower the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes: lose weight, exercise and eat healthily, but it’s hard to do it alone. PHE’s evidence review shows that supporting people along the way will help them protect their health and that’s what our prevention programme will do.

Professor Jonathan Valabhji, National Clinical Director for Diabetes and Obesity, NHS England said:

There are too many people on the cusp of developing Type 2 diabetes and we can change that. The growing body of evidence makes us confident that our NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme will reduce the numbers of those at risk going on to develop the debilitating disease.

Barbara Young, Chief Executive of Diabetes UK, said:

Having high blood glucose levels significantly increases your risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, which is a serious health condition which affects 2.9 million people in England, and can lead to devastating complications such as blindness, amputations and stroke, and ultimately early death.

This is why it is really important that people at high risk of developing Type 2 diabetes are given evidence-based support to reduce their risk. As well as helping to reduce the human cost of Type 2 diabetes, this would also go a long way to helping to reduce costs to the NHS.

The NHS spends 10% of its entire budget managing diabetes and unless we get better at preventing Type 2 diabetes this figure will rise to unsustainable levels."

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/five-million-people-at-high-risk-of-type-2-diabetes

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