A new report published by Diabetes UK, England’s leading diabetes charity, shows diabetes healthcare in England has drifted into a "state of crisis" with less than half of people with diabetes getting the basic minimum care they need...
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A new service has been launched on the Diabetes UK website to help people with diabetes get involved in research.
By participating in a clinical study or trial, volunteers can play an important part in helping to prevent diabetes, develop new and better treatments, or even one day in finding a cure...
The cost and number of drugs prescribed to treat diabetes in England has risen by more than 40 percent in the last five years, according to a new National Health Service (NHS) report released today.
According to Diabetes UK the NHS Information Centre has found that just over 35.5 million prescription items were dispensed in primary care units across England...
Researchers from the University of Cardiff, Wales, have found that the British National Health Service (NHS) costs for diabetes drugs, even taking into account the price of inflation, went up by 104% between 2000 - 2008, the BBC reports. According to the researchers the NHS is spending too much on diabetes drugs that account for 7% of the UK prescribing budget...
Richard Lane, president of Diabetes UK, has Type 1 diabetes and was one of the first people in the UK to receive islet cell transplants.