Recent Content by DavidR

Re: Flexlinkplus re-call My letter arrived a day later than promised by Mr Sweet and without the promised SAE to return the portion they wanted back to confirm that I'd received it.

Try M&S. I used them for cover to Canada this summer and they only (!!!) charged me twice as much as my (non-diabetic) wife.

Get yourself a yo-yo and tape the end of the string to your tummy for a night or two and try it out; it worked for me. My wife will like the idea of using the pump to stop me snoring...

Too long ago for me to remember which brand but it would have been a tub of 50 strips. I think the pharmacy was trying to take advantage of the situation :evil: The moral of the story is don't run out of strips in Brighton on a Sunday morning. I now always pack enough to last twice as long...

Some time ago when I last had to buy some (I was away from home and illness was causing me to use more strips than planned) the pharmacy I phoned quoted £50. The NHS drug tarif (the amount the pharmacist gets reimbursed for dispensing NHS items) varies between £9.85 and £16.30 depending on the...

If you are unhappy with the quantity of strips being prescibed for you then the 1st thing to do is get hold of a copy of your local Primary Care Trust's (PCT's) SBGM Prescribing Guidelines (West Essex PCT's guidelines are linked below, your PCT's may be different) or a letter from the PCT's...

The pump and the remote are "paired" so each will only communicate with it's uniquely numbered partner. In the event of replacement of one of them (due to loss or damage) then the two bits of kit must be re-paired to ensure they "talk" to each other at all -- it's all in the manual but the...

You can order Roche Accu-chek test solutions and replacement batteries online from Roche "...once every 3 months, on a complimentary basis" so you can save the inconvenience of a phone call. That is unless you have a Combo in which case you have to call their pump helpline!

Lies, **** lies, and statistics. Unfortunately I don't have full details of all our diabetics because not all of them attend their annual (or more frequent) clinics; nor do hospitals always forward the complete details of any clinics they have with a patient. Out of this (incomplete) dataset I...

A demographic breakdown of the figures I quoted earlier. Approx Type 2/Type 1 split is 9:1.

FarmerFudge, I view this forum on my on own behalf but I work in a GP surgery (I.T., not clinical). Your original question raised an interest so I dug into the computer system and came up with the following numbers: As of midnight last night we had 17314 patients of whom, in the last 12...

But don't forget to remove the Deltec CozMo from the above lists as Smiths Medical have recently announced they are pulling out of the diabetes market: http://www.delteccozmoupdate.com/

Something I've just come across regarding HbA1c: http://acb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/full/45/4/343 Basically the values of HbA1c will be changing from % (as quoted in all the posts above) to mmol/mol in order to "promote international good care for diabetics" (isn't that what we should be...