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<blockquote data-quote="Scouser58" data-source="post: 992876" data-attributes="member: 103830"><p><span style="font-size: 18px">Hello Antfm11, the diabetic nurse got angry when you told her how ,any times you tested?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">unbelievable,,,after all she asked the number of times you tested, so what is her problem?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">I am writing this from another post, it is about a member who wrote to the Department of Health about the problems of being stopped from testing.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">" Letter from, Daniel Cavill,,, Customer Service Centre, Department of Health.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">He quotes NICE GUIDELINES, Self monitoring of blood glucose is helpful only as part of an overall package of support for self care, and it is vital that the results of self monitoring are fully understood.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">ANY PRIMARY CARE TRUST (PCT) that is automatically discouraging the prescription of blood glucose testing slips is not acting in accordance with NICE'S advise"</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">This letter is very revealing in the tone of the reply to the original writer's letter, the use of testing strips is said to be helpful, but the doctors are not being helpful.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">I have been fortunate in being supplied with testing strips and lancets and supply of new meters, since I was diagnosed many years ago, and I have and will always maintain that testing is important part of a diabetics overall treatment and control of their condition.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">Keep fighting the cause and common sense will win the day and the sensible actions of testing, ttfn from Karen.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scouser58, post: 992876, member: 103830"] [SIZE=5]Hello Antfm11, the diabetic nurse got angry when you told her how ,any times you tested? unbelievable,,,after all she asked the number of times you tested, so what is her problem? I am writing this from another post, it is about a member who wrote to the Department of Health about the problems of being stopped from testing. " Letter from, Daniel Cavill,,, Customer Service Centre, Department of Health. He quotes NICE GUIDELINES, Self monitoring of blood glucose is helpful only as part of an overall package of support for self care, and it is vital that the results of self monitoring are fully understood. ANY PRIMARY CARE TRUST (PCT) that is automatically discouraging the prescription of blood glucose testing slips is not acting in accordance with NICE'S advise" This letter is very revealing in the tone of the reply to the original writer's letter, the use of testing strips is said to be helpful, but the doctors are not being helpful. I have been fortunate in being supplied with testing strips and lancets and supply of new meters, since I was diagnosed many years ago, and I have and will always maintain that testing is important part of a diabetics overall treatment and control of their condition. Keep fighting the cause and common sense will win the day and the sensible actions of testing, ttfn from Karen.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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