Petition · past parliament

Create a campaign to raise awareness of the symptoms of type 1 diabetes

Closed 363 signatures

What the petition asks

The number of young people being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes is rising at an alarming rate. The symptoms are often missed or explained away as flu. If left undiagnosed the outcome is fatal. If diagnosis is delayed the result is life changing. We need a campaign to highlight the symptoms.
https://www.news-medical.net/news/2007/03/19/22619.aspx

https://www.diabetes.org.uk/About_us/News_Landing_Page/UK-has-worlds-5th-highest-rate-of-Type-1-diabetes-in-children/

The statistics are frightening.
We need to raise awareness of the symptoms like we have had with meningitis and more recently sepsis.

Timeline

14 Sep 2017 Petition opened for signatures
14 Mar 2018 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 363
Status Closed
Opened 14 Sep 2017
Closed 14 Mar 2018

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.