Estimates of national health service expenditure on diabetes are available from the programme budgeting returns. The following table shows the estimated gross level expenditure for diabetes from 2004-05 to 2008-09 in England. These figures include primary care trust, Department of Health, strategic health authority and special health authority expenditure. It should be noted that these figures do not include prevention expenditure or general medical services/primary medical services expenditure. This is considerable, but we cannot quantify it separately.
Diabetes expenditure (£000) Department of Health gross expenditure (£000) Diabetes as a proportion of gross expenditure (percentage) 2004-05 687,402 71,922,179 1.0 2005-06 866,000 80,185,241 1.1 2006-07 1,043,021 84,193,209 1.2 2007-08 1,151,183 93,183,426 1.2 2008-09 1,262,066 96,814,987 1.3