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Diabetes: Medical Treatments

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 52076, tabled on 1 June 2020

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what processes are in place to monitor variation in the prescribing of technologies for people with diabetes in formularies throughout England.

Answered on

25 June 2020

There are a variety of processes used to monitor prescribing patterns and variation in the prescribing of technologies for people with diabetes. These are based on community pharmacy reimbursement data and include tools such as Open Prescribing, which is publicly available on the NHS Business Services Authority’s ePACT2 platform and PrescQIPP.