In 2024/25, there were over 3.7 million people living with type 2 diabetes in England, with a further 207 thousand with type 2 diabetes in Wales. Type 2 diabetes, highly related to unhealthy lifestyle choices, such as the overconsumption of sugar and a lack of exercise.
Type 1 diabetes
In 2023/24, most people registered with type 1 diabetes in England were aged 40 years and younger, with 44.7 percent. In 2021, the UK was the European country with the second-highest number of children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes after Germany, with over 31,600 cases.
Treatment
The NHS in the UK provides nine care processes annually to people with diabetes. Blood pressure checks, cholesterol monitoring, and foot surveillance are among those. Figures show that almost half of individuals in England with type 2 diabetes received all nine care processes between 2022 and 2023. This figure totaled 37 percent in the case of patients with type 1 diabetes. The same trend could be observed in Wales in 2021/22, where the share of type 2 diabetics receiving all care processes was double the type 1 patients.