Prevention Of Diabetes

EDM number 121 in 2010-12, proposed by Keith Vaz on 27/05/2010.
Categorised under the topics of Diseases and Health education and preventive medicine.

That this House recognises that diabetes is one of the biggest health challenges currently facing the UK with 5.1 per cent. of the population suffering; acknowledges the rise in sufferers of the condition from 1.4 million in 1996 to 2.6 million last year, with estimations of a further increase to four million by 2025; notes with concern the tremendous cost of the condition to the NHS with it utilising 10 per cent. of the 2007-08 budget, equivalent to £173 million per week, £25 million per day or £286 per second; and calls on the Government to increase efforts to raise the public's awareness of diabetes, its complications and the ways in which it can be prevented.

This motion has been signed by a total of 47 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.