Just heard this on the radio:
Wow , just wow !!In 2014/15 the UK Net Ingredient Cost (NIC) for managing diabetes was £868.6m
This represents 10% of the total primary care prescribing spend in 2014/15 (which was £8.7bn), and is compared with 9.5% in 2013/14 and 6.6% in 2005/06.