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Diabetes: Health Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to improve public awareness of the early signs of Type 1 diabetes.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 4 Nov 2025
Target answer date: 11 Nov 2025
Answer: 19 Nov 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

4 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to improve public awareness of the early signs of Type 1 diabetes.
11 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Nov 2025
Answer published
The National Health Service has publicly accessible information on its website about the signs and symptoms of type 1 diabetes, available at the following link:https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/type-1-diabetes/symptoms/The DigiBete app, launched in June 2020,...

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