Its all good and not too good which hospital you go to for your diabetes. They all have their pro's and con's. I always went to Chelsea and Westminster. Then for about 2 years i was transferred to Kings. Kings do things VERY different to Chelsea Westminster. They take blood from your ear lobe for your HBA1C. I hated that.
I saw prof Amiel at kings and she insisted I go on the next DAFNE course and get started on a pump. I did DAFNE and then it came to the pump. They would only offer me a tubed pump as their staff are only trained on the tubing pumps. I asked for the omnipod but Kings said that they do not work with Omnipod.
I went back to C&W where they offered me the tubeless Omnipod pump so i then transferred back.
i must say, being at both clinics, I much prefer my team at C&W.
Hopefully all clinics will be trained up with the new Libre freestyle meter. I did ask Abbott when they will start selling the meter's. They said soon. They are in the process of training people on how the system works.
I do believe that the freestyle Libre is probably the biggest jump forward that we have seen in years and following on from this, perhaps we will start seeing others follow. Its like when the first meters came out many years ago. They were huge bricks and took ages. You even had to plug them into a wall plug. As soon as the 1 meter came out, they just became smaller and smaller and loads of different brands started appearing. Hopefully in 5 years time, we will look at the libre and say OMG, how big was that!!