Diabetes suffers 'not receiving adequate care levels'

People are living with diabetes but not receiving the recommended level of care, a recent report has found.

A study conducted by the NHS Information Centre found that only 32 per cent of people with Type 1 diabetes are receiving all nine treatment processes.

This is far below the NICE recommendation, although the figure has risen substantially from the recorded 11.9 per cent six years' ago.

Karen Addinton, chief executive of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation in the UK, commented: " "We are gravely concerned that only one-third of people living with type 1 diabetes receive the nine recommended care processes available and that many are not achieving target HbA1c [long-term blood glucose levels]."

She added that it is a "complex condition" and as such it is "vital" that people who are living with the disease receive the medical tests and information they need.

A report by Diabetes UK revealed that the causes of diabetes are still misunderstood, with 42 per cent of people thinking that it is the result of eating too much sugar. ADNFCR-438-ID-19844582-ADNFCR