In England, a best practice tariff (BPT) was introduced for paediatric diabetes in 2011/12 to incentivise the delivery of high quality paediatric care to all children with diabetes. This is a year of care tariff payable to paediatric diabetes units on completion of the predetermined criteria, which cover all aspects of high quality diabetes care.
The latest information on BPT is available on pages 16 and 17 of a new toolkit published NHS England in 2025 – Children and Young Adults (0 to 25) diabetes (PDF) which our organisation contributed to.
A more detailed version of the toolkit is available to read on NHS England's website.
