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Diabetes: Standards

Volume 472: debated on Thursday 6 March 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the effect of changes in waiting times for appointments with specialist teams on service quality and the standard of care provided to patients with diabetes. (190260)

The Department is not aware that any such assessment has been made. It is the responsibility of local national health service organisations to commission specialist diabetes services, and to ensure that those services meet all the needs of local people with diabetes. We would expect these services to be of good quality and to meet national waiting time targets.