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<blockquote data-quote="HarryBeau" data-source="post: 1620219" data-attributes="member: 329049"><p>How frustrating Karen...seems all decisions relating to our care have to be assessed not by our Doctors or Nurses but by the managers or CCG directives...cost implications no doubt...as for the cartridges...would it have been so difficult for him/her to speak to the DN...doubt it...honestly had the most awful start with my own GP...dreaded my appointments...decided to work hard with him...wrote to him...outlined my concerns...had several discussions...now we have a good working relationship...he listens...and each visit he learns a little more about diabetes...why not drop a note to your GP...ask for the DN to be contacted remind them about the cartridges...seems to be a lottery with DSNs...some are more enlightened than others...I now refuse to see the DSN at our practice...since she described my testing more than four times a day as obsessive...ironically she was happy to accept my HbA1c results which my GP described as excellent...the irony of the NHS.. . sometimes more difficult to navigate the politics than the conditions!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HarryBeau, post: 1620219, member: 329049"] How frustrating Karen...seems all decisions relating to our care have to be assessed not by our Doctors or Nurses but by the managers or CCG directives...cost implications no doubt...as for the cartridges...would it have been so difficult for him/her to speak to the DN...doubt it...honestly had the most awful start with my own GP...dreaded my appointments...decided to work hard with him...wrote to him...outlined my concerns...had several discussions...now we have a good working relationship...he listens...and each visit he learns a little more about diabetes...why not drop a note to your GP...ask for the DN to be contacted remind them about the cartridges...seems to be a lottery with DSNs...some are more enlightened than others...I now refuse to see the DSN at our practice...since she described my testing more than four times a day as obsessive...ironically she was happy to accept my HbA1c results which my GP described as excellent...the irony of the NHS.. . sometimes more difficult to navigate the politics than the conditions! [/QUOTE]
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