Funding so all infants are offered Type 1 Diabetes Testing in routine care

Petitions/Funding so all infants are offered Type 1 Diabetes Testing in routine care

StatusClosed

Opened20 Jun 2025

Closes20 Dec 2025

Government responseResponded

Parliamentary debateDebated · 10 Mar 2026

Milestones✓ 10,000✓ 100,000

Fund mandatory offer of testing for Type 1 Diabetes in babies, toddlers, and young children as a routine part of medical assessments at the point of care.

We believe that lives could be saved by doing this. Too many children are misdiagnosed, and this can tragically lead to loss of life.

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Government response

NHS England provides diabetes care in children. Due to insufficient evidence supporting routine mandatory testing for paediatric type 1 diabetes it has no plans to introduce this at the current time.