Mrs May wears a Libre.
Great, I don't have an problems with.
Many on here seem to be getting all hot and bothered about it but lets take a step back and look at it from a different angle.
Do we know how she got the sensor?
Is it self funded? Well her and her husband are not short of a bob or two so possible.
Is it on prescription? don't know and no one on here appears to know either.
Is it provided free by Abbots as a way of getting recognised? again no one knows.
Does she have private health care which recommended the device? again no one seems to know this but as PM I suspect she does have access to this.
Why is she not singing it praises?
I have not seen anything on here or around where she has been interviewed about it, what she thinks about it or how good she thinks it is. So jury out on this.
Maybe she asked Jeremy Hunt about funding them? Well Mr Hunt is probably the last person to ask.
Considering what is currently going on in British, European politics at the moment not to mention the the great orange one from the colonies, I think the last thing on Mrs Mays' mind is to start pushing how wonderful Libre is and we all should have one.
Sorry it is just the way it is and I said earlier it maybe the best way to control her diabetes in the job she does.
And before you all jump up and down and start saying "I could do a better job" the answer is you couldn't because if you could you would be an MP and not here on the forum jumping up and down.
And this is where it will hurt.
The thing is we are all just numbers and costs on a spread sheet and at the moment Libre is expensive and some argue not accurate plus the technology also fails a fair bit.
So finger pricks? They are reliable, they are cheap, they are accurate, so this make things on the balance sheet more acceptable to the suits that run the NHS.
By all means hassle your MP and the PM but until the balance sheets say that it is a cost effective way to mange diabetes or the technology become cheaper/reliable then it will be an up hill struggle for people to get it on the NHS.