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<blockquote data-quote="Nyadach" data-source="post: 750696" data-attributes="member: 113357"><p>The NHS is brilliant. Let's look at it (T1 perspective). We get paid for by the NHS a small mountain of kit, insulin at £90 a bottle, test strips at £1 each, lancets, meters, pump's costing thousands possibly and maybe even CGM costing many hundreds per month. We get to see a DSN pretty often, and usually available when we need something or we can drop in if they have a gap.</p><p></p><p>A lot of our care is a postcode lottery, but with the NHS these days it's set up so if we don't like our care we can change to a different hospital. We aren't bound. We can seek the care we want if we can be bothered. It won't come to us, we have to seek it.</p><p></p><p>You look at the US? Oh isn't it wonderful, they get so much stuff we don't. Yes it's great, they can pick and choose the hardware and medication, but then again they are paying for it much more heavily than we do and the number on devices like pumps is far LOWER than it in in this country. The same goes right across Europe, we have more equipment readily available to us than any other country with faster growth rates for newer and better equipment than anywhere on the planet. </p><p></p><p>Meanwhile other parts of the world they can't even get insulin at all. People have a slow agonising death with a T1's life expectancy of 6-8 years. And folk on here are whining about how bad we are off?!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nyadach, post: 750696, member: 113357"] The NHS is brilliant. Let's look at it (T1 perspective). We get paid for by the NHS a small mountain of kit, insulin at £90 a bottle, test strips at £1 each, lancets, meters, pump's costing thousands possibly and maybe even CGM costing many hundreds per month. We get to see a DSN pretty often, and usually available when we need something or we can drop in if they have a gap. A lot of our care is a postcode lottery, but with the NHS these days it's set up so if we don't like our care we can change to a different hospital. We aren't bound. We can seek the care we want if we can be bothered. It won't come to us, we have to seek it. You look at the US? Oh isn't it wonderful, they get so much stuff we don't. Yes it's great, they can pick and choose the hardware and medication, but then again they are paying for it much more heavily than we do and the number on devices like pumps is far LOWER than it in in this country. The same goes right across Europe, we have more equipment readily available to us than any other country with faster growth rates for newer and better equipment than anywhere on the planet. Meanwhile other parts of the world they can't even get insulin at all. People have a slow agonising death with a T1's life expectancy of 6-8 years. And folk on here are whining about how bad we are off?! [/QUOTE]
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