The escalating diabetes crisis is now costing the NHS almost £1 billion a year in prescriptions to treat and manage the disease.

Total spending spiralled by £88 million over the last financial year and now makes up 10.6 per cent of the total cost of all prescribing in GP surgeries and other primary care.

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