HL Deb 17 November 2004 vol 666 cc181-2WA
Lord Jacobs

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether any National Health Service funding will be made available to treat patients with severe diabetes in the United Kingdom to enable them to cease to need insulin; whether the National Institute for Clinical Excellence has considered this procedure; and, if not, whether it is planning to do so. [HL4956]

Lord Warner

There is no central funding and nothing in the current National Institute for Clinical Excellence work programme on this procedure.