Position statements

Early Identification of people with and at high risk of Type 2 diabetes and interventions for those at high risk.

There is a need to identify people with and at high risk of Type 2 diabetes and offer interventions for those at high risk because:

• It is estimated that 850,000 people have undiagnosed Type 2 diabetes
• Currently fifty per cent of people already have complications when they are diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes
• Seven million people in the UK are at high risk (those with impaired glucose regulation) of developing Type 2 diabetes
• There is clear evidence that interventions for people at high risk can delay or prevent Type 2 diabetes.

Diabetes UK supports the NICE guidelines and NHS health checks programme and calls for them to be fully implemented along with further calls to action.

Download the full position statement, Early identification of people with Type 2 diabetes (PDF, 145KB).