Diabetes Steve Webb To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps are being taken to encourage self-monitoring for diabetes patients. Ms Rosie Winterton Structured education is seen by the diabetes national service framework (NSF) as one of the key interventions needed to help empower people with diabetes. The diabetes NSF is supported by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) health technology appraisal, number 60—“Guidance on the Use of Patient Education Models for Diabetes”. This requires all primary care trusts to implement NICE recommendations by providing all people with diabetes with high quality, structured education, which should include self-monitoring.