Politicians to face questions on diabetes

Published on Wednesday 9 March 2011 10:32

a LEADING health charity is to put politicians on the spot on their policies, plans and priorities for tackling diabetes.

Diabetes UK Scotland is staging a question time event chaired by radio presenter Fred MacAulay at Edinburgh's Macdonald Holyrood Hotel in Holyrood Road on Tuesday at 7pm.

The panel will include Ross Finnie (Liberal Democrats), Nanette Milne (Scottish Conservatives), Patrick Harvie (Scottish Green Party), Richard Simpson (Scottish Labour Party), and Shona Robison (Scottish National Party).

They will also be joined by Baroness Barbara Young, recently appointed chief executive of Diabetes UK.

The number of people diagnosed with diabetes has doubled in a decade. The condition now directly affects 240,000 people in Scotland. Last year 19,000 people were told they had diabetes and if current trends continue another 100,000 people will be diagnosed over the five-year term of the next parliament.

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