New figures show that 4.3 million people are now living with a diagnosis of diabetes in the UK, according to Diabetes UK.
Registration figures for 2021-22 are up by 148,951 from 2020-21, and more than 2.4 million people are at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes in the UK. Diabetes UK warns the total could hit 200,000 18-39-year-olds by 2027 out of around five million patients in total.
Now, hundreds of children with type 2 diabetes who currently manage their condition with the ‘burdensome’, ‘tiring’, and ‘stressful’ task of finger prick testing several times a day could be offered a choice between two ‘life changing’ technologies to virtually automate the process, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has said.
