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<blockquote data-quote="xAoifex" data-source="post: 968206" data-attributes="member: 45422"><p>NICE guidelines are just that, GUIDELINES. There is no one shoe fits all with any disease or condition (would be a lot simpler all round there was) guidelines and recommendations will not fit everybody's needs and HCP (and patients) need to realise that although it can work in our favour when NICE recommend something the docs aren't keen on! NICE aren't a group of magicians, those who write the guidelines tend to be experts in their area working off best available research and practice. It's not infallible and new research is going on all the time. It also needs to ensure treatments are cost effective and able to reach the largest amount of people. Its this last point that annoys me as I feel often NICE doesn't look at the future picture, eg pumps and CGMs are a lot more expensive short term than MDI however if it reduces complications in the future and enables us to avoid expensive complications and treatment of these for and be a tax paying productive member of society for longer then is it still so expensive?</p><p>(rant over!)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="xAoifex, post: 968206, member: 45422"] NICE guidelines are just that, GUIDELINES. There is no one shoe fits all with any disease or condition (would be a lot simpler all round there was) guidelines and recommendations will not fit everybody's needs and HCP (and patients) need to realise that although it can work in our favour when NICE recommend something the docs aren't keen on! NICE aren't a group of magicians, those who write the guidelines tend to be experts in their area working off best available research and practice. It's not infallible and new research is going on all the time. It also needs to ensure treatments are cost effective and able to reach the largest amount of people. Its this last point that annoys me as I feel often NICE doesn't look at the future picture, eg pumps and CGMs are a lot more expensive short term than MDI however if it reduces complications in the future and enables us to avoid expensive complications and treatment of these for and be a tax paying productive member of society for longer then is it still so expensive? (rant over!) [/QUOTE]
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