LloydsPharmacy branches across the UK have today started offering free Type 2 diabetes tests. 

The report found beneficial effects from following a lower carbohydrate diet, such as an improvement in blood sugar management.

Cases of diabetes diagnoses have doubled in the last 15 years, according to charity Diabetes UK. 

KCL study shows a strong relationship between loneliness and the later onset of type 2 diabetes

Advice to help people with type 2 diabetes manage their condition is to be made available via a NHS online portal.

The economic analysis used data collected from 172 patients from six pharmacies in Leicester and 164 patients from six pharmacies in Surrey.

Some 17,000 people across the UK have now completed the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme.

A new once-weekly injectable glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonist (GLP-1 RA), is available for type 2 diabetes.