10 Year Vision: For diabetes prevention, care and treatment (Diabetes UK, 14 May 2025)

Summary

Diabetes UK has launched their new ‘10 Year Vision: For diabetes prevention, care and treatment’, setting out a clear plan for the UK government about how it can improve health outcomes and tackle inequality for people living with diabetes by 2035. 

The UK government will publish its 10 Year Health Plan in June, which will set out how the health service can make a shift from sickness to preventing ill health. If the government is to succeed with this aim, diabetes must be at the heart of its plans. 

Content

The ‘10 Year Vision’ gives the government a clear plan for how it can improve health outcomes and tackle inequalities for people living with diabetes, and how this can be achieved by 2035. This vision involves: 

• Stemming the rise in type 2 diabetes – improving our food environment and delivering high-quality support to help people reduce their risk of type 2 diabetes.  
• Ensuring early and accurate diagnosis - which is key to setting people up to manage their diabetes and, in turn, preventing serious complications.  
• Transforming diabetes care and treatment – to help people with diabetes live well. Most diabetes complications can be prevented with simple interventions like annual checks, access to the right treatments and technology, and a focus on reducing health inequalities. 
• Accelerating innovation – Investing in diabetes research and ensuring new treatments and technologies are available to people with diabetes quickly.