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Diabetes: Drugs

Commons · Question 78287 · Tabled 10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 20 Oct 2025

Question

Asked by Melanie Onn

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve access to Lyft shots prescribed for children with Type 1 diabetes in (a) Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes constituency and (b) England.

Answer

Answered by Ashley Dalton, 20 Oct 2025

The Department has not made a specific assessment. Decisions on the prescribing of medicines in England are a matter for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). NICE has published advice on the management of Type 1 Diabetes, includin...