Diabetes: a 'ticking time bomb' for the NHS

Diabetes: a 'ticking time bomb' for the NHS Lack of specialist support and rising numbers of people living with the condition will create huge complications, say experts

Rising numbers of people with diabetes and a lack of specialist staff and adequate training are creating a ticking time bomb, experts and medical professionals have warned.

The combination of an increase of people with type 2 diabetes over the past 20 years, cuts to NHS spending on continuing professional development and insufficient specialist support and expertise for people with type 1 diabetes will result in “huge complications” over the next two decades, according to experts at a Guardian roundtable event . Clinicians, academics, policy advisers and people with personal experience of diabetes discussed how to improve care in the UK. The Guardian