Sadly, urbanracer, it appears that SOME Authorities in the UK haven't moved forward with the times then. The change from reporting HbA1c levels from % terms to mmol/mol SHOULD have been completed by October 2011.
https://www.diabetes.org.uk/about_us/news_landing_page/change-in-measurement-of-hba1c
Be well, sir.
Lots of Love and Light.
Mick
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P.S. Please don't be offended, or alarmed, at the 'x's'. It's merely a logo, of sorts, that I've used for the past 40-odd years.
It's partly the stress the NHS is under as a whole.
I got a call last Tuesday from hospital about a follow-up appointment with an eye specialist, non-diabetic related.
The lady asked me if I could come in on Thursday, two days time. I could as it happened.
She told me that this appointment was 7 months overdue. Not great but better than some I'm sure (hips and knees for example).
Made me think about my routine diabetic retinopathy scan which I think is overdue. I'll chase that up. It's a lesson of sorts not to rely on others.
Two tests of note.
The first, about 18 months ago, the lady said please read those letters from the top. I could only read a couple of lines where the letters were about the size of a church.
'Do you wear glasses?' she asked.
'Yes.'
'Oh, Lord.' Sigh. 'Would you mind putting them on and trying again!'
Since then I've got some new prescription glasses that I'm really happy with (considering they were chosen from the budget range discovered in the back of a locked cupboard). This time the chap asked me to read the letters I read them all, down to the tiniest ones. It's well done to Vision Express because the guy said it was the first time in 5 years that anyone had ever read the whole chart.