Title: Diabetes: Most NHS costs wasteful, says Diabetic Medicine - BBC News
Headings: Diabetes: Most NHS costs wasteful, says Diabetic Medicine
Diabetes: Most NHS costs wasteful, says Diabetic Medicine
The majority of NHS spending on diabetes is avoidable, says a report in the journal Diabetic Medicine.
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Content: The report also predicts that by 2035, diabetes will cost the NHS £16.8bn, 17% of its entire budget. There are 3.8 million people living with diabetes in the UK. The study looked at annual direct patient care costs for both types of diabetes, with Type 2 at £8.8bn being far higher than that of Type 1 at £1bn. Both Type 1 diabetes, which tends to appear in childhood, and Type 2 diabetes, often linked to diet, lead to problems controlling the amount of sugar in the blood. Complications occur when people with diabetes sustain high levels of glucose over a long period. This can lead to increased chances of developing disease-related complications, such as kidney failure, nerve damage, damage to the retina, stroke and cardiovascular disease. Budget crash
Baroness Barbara Young, from Diabetes UK - one of the charities involved in the Impact Diabetes report - said: " The report shows that without urgent action, the already huge sums of money spent on treating diabetes will rise to unsustainable levels that threaten to bankrupt the NHS. "If this rise in diabetes is allowed to continue, as is happening at the moment, it will simply be disastrous for the NHS and wreck NHS budgets. I think we have a car crash coming.