3.4 million people with Type 2 diabetes in England with around 200,000 new diagnoses every year.
One in 15 people in the UK have diabetes, including one million people who have type 2, but haven’t been diagnosed.
About 8 per cent of people with diabetes in the UK have Type 1 diabetes. It’s got nothing to do with diet or lifestyle, it just happens. We’re still not sure what causes it.