1,900 people living with type 2 diabetes have joined us.
Across the UK, and growing daily. For clinical trials and research in type 2 diabetes, we count who we hold near your sites the same day, put your protocol and materials in front of them before they're final, and refer the ones who pass your screening questions and say yes, following every referral through to randomisation.
Who our type 2 diabetes members are
Counted September 2026. Each member is counted once, under the main condition they told us about. Deprivation is worked out from members' postcodes using the Index of Multiple Deprivation; an even spread would put about 20% in the most deprived fifth of areas. Every member has finished onboarding and passed our sign-up checks, and conditions are self-declared, with qualifying questions.
Where we're short. Our type 2 diabetes members are close to who has the condition. The free panel count tells you exactly who we hold today.
Type 2 diabetes in the UK
people in the UK are living with diabetes, including an estimated 1.3 million with type 2 diabetes who have not yet been diagnosed. Around 90% of people with a diagnosis have type 2.
Diabetes UK, How many people in the UK have diabetes? (2024-25 data).
People of Asian (including Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi), Chinese, Black African and Black Caribbean ethnicity have been found to be two to four times more likely to have diabetes than White people.
Diabetes UK, How many people in the UK have diabetes?
The NHS counts people from a South Asian, Chinese, Black African or Black Caribbean background as at higher risk of type 2 diabetes from age 25, and White people from age 40.
NHS, Symptoms of type 2 diabetes and how it is diagnosed, reviewed February 2025.
What you can ask for
- A free panel count, the same working day. How many members with type 2 diabetes we hold near your UK sites, by postcode district, and how they break down. Free panel count
- Patient involvement, before it's final. Members with type 2 diabetes review your protocol, participant information sheet, consent form or product, and you get a report of what changed. Patient involvement
- Referrals, followed through. Members who pass your screening questions and say yes are referred to the site, and we follow each one to randomisation. Clinical trial recruitment in the UK
- Ask our data, then members live. An answer straight away from what members have already told us, linked to the members who gave it. Ask our data
"Would people with type 2 diabetes in the most deprived areas come to an 8am fasting visit for a clinical trial?"
What comes back
An answer straight away from what members with type 2 diabetes have already told us, linked to the members who said it. Then ask members live: survey answers, voice notes and video diaries within hours or days, broken down by age, sex, ethnicity and deprivation, with the themes, how many raised each one and who.
Other conditions our members live with
Depression · Asthma · COPD · Obesity · Eczema · Psoriasis · Breast cancer · Bipolar disorder · Prostate cancer · Lung cancer
Not listed? Tell us the condition and where your UK sites are, and we'll recruit people who live with it near them, and show you the first count within a month. All conditions