Written questions

Diabetes: Screening

Commons · Question 42727 · Tabled 31 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 7 Apr 2025

Question

Asked by Preet Kaur Gill

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of levels of screening of type 1 diabetes.

Answer

Answered by Ashley Dalton, 7 Apr 2025

The Early Surveillance for Autoimmune diabetes (ELSA) study is researching a screening programme for children, aged three to 13 years old, to detect for type 1 diabetes with a simple finger stick blood test. This looks for four antibodies, protein markers...