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<blockquote data-quote="busydiabeticmum" data-source="post: 1633404" data-attributes="member: 160151"><p><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2083560/Its-21st-Century-epidemic-costing-NHS-1m-hour-experts-fear-thousands-million-diabetes-sufferers-misdiagnosed.html" target="_blank">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2083560/Its-21st-Century-epidemic-costing-NHS-1m-hour-experts-fear-thousands-million-diabetes-sufferers-misdiagnosed.html</a></p><p></p><p>"The Government promised GPs cash incentives for diagnosing greater numbers of serious conditions such as diabetes. The QOF also sets stringent guidelines about effective treatment and doctors are further rewarded when more than half their diabetic patients score blood-sugar levels below seven – incentivising early drug treatment.</p><p></p><p>Dr Sharp adds: ‘GPs now screen for diabetes at an earlier stage. By fishing in shallower waters, testing seemingly healthy patients, more borderline results are likely to be turned up and some may be wrongly prescribed Metformin [the standard drug treatment] by an over-cautious or ill-informed GP. ’"</p><p></p><p>It does go on but this is what I am speaking about.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="busydiabeticmum, post: 1633404, member: 160151"] [URL]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2083560/Its-21st-Century-epidemic-costing-NHS-1m-hour-experts-fear-thousands-million-diabetes-sufferers-misdiagnosed.html[/URL] "The Government promised GPs cash incentives for diagnosing greater numbers of serious conditions such as diabetes. The QOF also sets stringent guidelines about effective treatment and doctors are further rewarded when more than half their diabetic patients score blood-sugar levels below seven – incentivising early drug treatment. Dr Sharp adds: ‘GPs now screen for diabetes at an earlier stage. By fishing in shallower waters, testing seemingly healthy patients, more borderline results are likely to be turned up and some may be wrongly prescribed Metformin [the standard drug treatment] by an over-cautious or ill-informed GP. ’" It does go on but this is what I am speaking about. [/QUOTE]
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