Please do get referred to Kings. My GP supposedly has a diabetes specialist nurse but she keeps getting confused between type 1 & 2!
The team at Kings are fantastic - you should have been seen about every 3 months for the first year and then if stable, you move to every 6 months-ish. I can't...
A friend sent me this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/reality-check-with-polly-curtis/2011/oct/05/cameron-dig-brussels-diabetes-discriminatory
Doesn't sound very good...