It can improve life for thousands with type 1 diabetes in England and Wales, health assessors say.
This new technology does that automatically, virtually mimicking the function of a pancreas - although it still requires information on food intake to work accurately.
Yasmin Hopkins, 27, from London, had struggled to maintain her blood sugar levels since she was diagnosed at the age of 12."I wake up now and I can do a normal day's work, or go on a dog walk without being concerned," she said.Under draft recommendations, NICE said the system should first be offered to patients in England and Wales unable to control their diabetes, including pregnant women, which could be around 100,000 people in England alone.
Hilary Nathan, policy director at JDRF, the type 1 diabetes charity which has funded research into the system for many years, said it was "a game-changing treatment at the forefront of health technology and artificial intelligence".
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