Debate contribution: Insulin Pumps
Debate contribution by Mr Robin Swann on .
- MLA
- Mr Robin Swann
- Party at the time
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Date
- 4 March 2024
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Insulin Pumps
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4254443
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I thank the Member for her query about the closed-loop service. In December 2023, as the Member stated, NICE updated its guidance with recommendations on the use of a hybrid closed-loop system. The guidance provides evidence-based recommendations on hybrid closed-loop systems for managing blood-glucose levels in type 1 diabetes. Subsequently, Department of Health medicines policy branch, which sits within my Chief Medical Officer's group, reviewed that guidance and formally endorsed it as being applicable in Northern Ireland. In line with NICE guidance and the recommendation, work has been undertaken by my officials to develop an options appraisal. That will allow me to understand the implications of that decision for overall provision, consideration of priority groups, system costs and workforce and communication requirements to enable and support that. The information will inform commissioning arrangements for Northern Ireland and final decision-making on the implementation by my Department. It is worth noting, however, that NHS England developed a five-year phased implementation strategy in response to the guidance. That decision was taken in response to the scale and scope of the recommendation.
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