Improved GP management of diabetes could help save £3 billion a year

Poor diabetes control was responsible for £3 billion in potentially avoidable hospital treatment in England in the operational year 2017-2018, according to new research comparing the costs of hospital care for 58 million people with and without diabetes. The findings, presented at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) Annual Meeting, revealed that on average, people with type 1 diabetes require six times more hospital treatment (£3,035 per person per year), and those with type 2 diabetes twice as much care (£1,291; after adjusting for their older age), than people without diabetes (£510). Other than age, diabetes is the largest