Each year, Diabetes Week gives everyone here at Diabetes UK, our many thousands of supporters across the UK, and all those living with or affected by diabetes the opportunity to reflect on the needs of people with diabetes. We celebrate our achievements together and look to ways of improving even further the dialogue around this…

That all people in the world can get quality health services, where and when they need them, without suffering financial hardship; that’s the vision of universal health coverage and the campaigning message behind today’s World Health Day. When we consider that theme from the perspective of all types of diabetes in the UK we must…

Today, at Diabetes UK we’ve shared the great news that we will be continuing as a partner of Tesco, by being a part of a new, long term 4-way Health Partnership, formed of Tesco, Cancer Research UK and British Heart Foundation, launched today under the banner ‘Little helps to healthier lives’. Working with Tesco over…

Last week, Chancellor Philip Hammond in his autumn budget, announced an extra £2.8bn funding for the NHS over the next three years. It’s a significant amount of money of course, but it falls significantly short of what’s needed to stop the worrying decline of our health and social care services. Ahead of the budget, The…

‘Driven to know more’ and ‘putting people first’ are two values we hold dear at Diabetes UK, and both have been at the heart of the biggest and deepest listening exercise we’ve ever done to learn about what matters most to people living with, or close, to diabetes. In what we’ve dubbed our ‘big diabetes conversation’,…

Today (21 September) marks the birthday of the father of modern science fiction HG Wells. Wells (pictured above) was diagnosed with diabetes in his early 60s, and in 1934, along with his physician, RD Lawrence, he founded the Diabetic Association, now known as Diabetes UK. Our first research grant was awarded the very next year:…