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<blockquote data-quote="hh1" data-source="post: 1945694" data-attributes="member: 146541"><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 15px">First of all, your GP can prescribe Libre, assuming your CCG is allowing it to be prescribed. If your CCG doesn't provide it or has imposed criteria you don't meet, my consultant tells me that your GP can over-ride CCG prescribing rules if he or she feels it to be clinically necessary (kudos to any GP who takes on their CCG). Also see para 6.3 of this: <a href="http://www.gplaw.co.uk/chapters/itemlist/user/804-davidlockqc" target="_blank">http://www.gplaw.co.uk/chapters/itemlist/user/804-davidlockqc</a>. The NHS insisting that all CCGs provide Libre from April doesn't mean everyone will get it; the estimate is 25% of T1s. This is because you have to meet one or more of the NHS criteria for prescription; you can find those here: <a href="https://www.sps.nhs.uk/articles/regional-medicines-optimisation-committee-freestyle-libre-position-statement/" target="_blank">https://www.sps.nhs.uk/articles/regional-medicines-optimisation-committee-freestyle-libre-position-statement/</a> Ignore the fact that this report is from the </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><a href="https://www.sps.nhs.uk/articles/regional-medicines-optimisation-committee-freestyle-libre-position-statement/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #000000">Regional Medicines Optimisation Committee, they produced this for the whole of the NHS.</span></span></a></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">I'd add that you're entitled to see a diabetes specialist as one of the 15 annual checks for pwd. A DSN is a nurse who works wholly in diabetes care; this doesn't apply to all nurses who see diabetes patients in GP surgeries.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hh1, post: 1945694, member: 146541"] [FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=4]First of all, your GP can prescribe Libre, assuming your CCG is allowing it to be prescribed. If your CCG doesn't provide it or has imposed criteria you don't meet, my consultant tells me that your GP can over-ride CCG prescribing rules if he or she feels it to be clinically necessary (kudos to any GP who takes on their CCG). Also see para 6.3 of this: [URL]http://www.gplaw.co.uk/chapters/itemlist/user/804-davidlockqc[/URL]. The NHS insisting that all CCGs provide Libre from April doesn't mean everyone will get it; the estimate is 25% of T1s. This is because you have to meet one or more of the NHS criteria for prescription; you can find those here: [URL]https://www.sps.nhs.uk/articles/regional-medicines-optimisation-committee-freestyle-libre-position-statement/[/URL] Ignore the fact that this report is from the [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=4][COLOR=#000000][URL='https://www.sps.nhs.uk/articles/regional-medicines-optimisation-committee-freestyle-libre-position-statement/'][FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#000000]Regional Medicines Optimisation Committee, they produced this for the whole of the NHS.[/COLOR][/FONT][/URL][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=4][FONT=Tahoma]I'd add that you're entitled to see a diabetes specialist as one of the 15 annual checks for pwd. A DSN is a nurse who works wholly in diabetes care; this doesn't apply to all nurses who see diabetes patients in GP surgeries.[/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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