Diabetes Is Being Misdiagnosed

The Royal College of General Practitioners and NHS Diabetes published evidence from an audit of five GP practises in Surrey, covering 45,000 patients.
It revealed that two per cent of those diagnosed with type 2 diabetes didn’t have diabetes at all – the equivalent of 50,000 misdiagnoses nationally.
Some experts now believe this figure could be the tip of the iceberg.
According to charity Diabetes UK, the number of cases of diabetes in the UK has soared to 2.9 million, a 50 per cent rise since 2005, costing the NHS £9 billion a year, or £1 million an hour.
A staggering £130 million is spent just on tablets to control type 2, which accounts for 90 per cent of the 150,000 new diagnoses in the past 12 months.
Understandably, it has been heralded as the epidemic of the 21st Century.
But now, questions are being asked about how sound many of these diagnoses actually are.