Chris Askew

Chris Askew is Chief Executive of Diabetes UK and joined the charity in September 2015.

In his previous role as Chief Executive at Breakthrough Breast Cancer, Chris led on the charity’s merger with Breast Cancer Campaign, to form the new charity Breast Cancer Now.

Before arriving at Breakthrough in 2006 as its Director of Fundraising, Chris held senior fundraising positions at the charities Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Crisis and Action for Children. He moved into the charitable sector in 1997, after a number of years working as a shipbroker in the international freight markets.

Chris sits on the Board of the National Diabetes Prevention Programme and on the Richmond Group of major health charities. Previously he chaired the Department of Health’s Breast Cancer Working Group and sat on the Cancer Outcomes Strategy Implementation Advisory Group.

In the past, Chris has been a regional volunteer for the MS Society and a Trustee of the Revolving Doors Agency and currently is a Trustee of the rare disease charity Action on A-T (ataxia telangiectasia).

You can follow Chris on Twitter at @ChrisAskewCE.

Money talks: how the Chancellor’s budget is putting health and social care at risk – by Chris Askew

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…

Join the fight for a better future on World Diabetes Day – by Chris Askew

‘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’,…

Taking a trip on HG Wells’ diabetes time machine – by Chris Askew

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:…

Flash comes to town – by Chris Askew

We hear often at Diabetes UK from people with diabetes that they want access to new technologies that can help them manage their diabetes. Today’s news that flash glucose monitoring will be made available across the NHS in the UK is just that; a technology which, evidence suggests, can improve diabetes control and quality of…

Diabetes care transformation on the way thanks to campaigners and NHS staff – by Chris Askew

Today at Diabetes UK we are celebrating years of hard work as the NHS has decided which local areas have won bids from a £40 million fund to improve diabetes care in England. This news comes after thousands of campaigners joined together to write letters, sign petitions and meet with MPs and NHS managers. Together…

Know diabetes. Fight diabetes – by Chris Askew

This week is Diabetes Week, our annual awareness-raising campaign and our theme is ‘Know Diabetes. Fight Diabetes’ which many of you will recognise as our new strapline. This year we’re raising awareness of the essential work Diabetes UK does in helping people to know their diabetes, and in fighting the challenges that diabetes presents. And…

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