Local CCG's send a list of preferred meters to the Practice Manager........your Gp is passing the buck he can continue giving you strips for your old meter, our Practice Manager tried it on with me but I printed out a copy of the local "Formulary", which you should be able to look at online, which says "those using insulin, glucose lowering drugs or are carb counting" are allowed to keep the meter of their choice........when I asked for an increase of strips and they refused I reminded them as a user of insulin I had by law to test before driving away from the house and again before I left the place I'd been and that their allowance of 4 strips a day was sorely short of what was required......I also pointed out to my GP that as I was injecting myself multiple times daily with what was for others a poison then having faith in my meter was paramount or I could end up killing myself.......and that would look bad for the practice