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JenniBeeTee30 You are the only person I have seen mention that Insulet/Abbott are going to fix the Omnipod 5/Freestyle Libre 2 Plus hybrid closed loop in January 2025 so that Abbott's LibreLinkUp app will allow real time data from the sensor to be received by parents/carers on parents'/carers'...

Based on what I've read on this and other forums, if I were your daughter I would try to stay on the Omnipod 5/Dexcom G6 hybrid closed loop combination for as long as possible. And I am a diehard Freestyle Libre fan because I know that it works well with my body chemistry. No one (except...

Zinedane, if you (or indeed anyone) are considering going on hybrid closed loop with the Medrum please speak to your diabetes team beforehand. I'm sure you are aware there have been concerns raised recently about the efficacy of the Medrum system and hybrid closed looping...

The Bluetooth signal in the Dexcom G6 is supposed to be significantly stronger/better in the Dexcom G6 cgm than the Libre 2 Plus cgm. Also, anyone using the Omnipod 5 and Libre 2 Plus as a hybrid closed loop does not have access to a "follower" app function, so that parents and other carer...

Congratulations! If you are in the United Kingdom, you won't have an option at the moment except to use the pdm that comes with Insulet's Omnipod 5 pump. At present no one seems to know when the Omnipod 5 apps for iPhone and Android smartphones will be available in the UK. Once you have been...

The Freestyle Libre 3 was put on the NHS England prescription tariff six(?) months ago. Under the NHS's "unique" local approvals system, each individual local health authority (ICS) get to decide whether GPs in their health authority area can prescribe it to their patients. Unfortunately the...

Hello Is anyone currently trialling or using the Omnipod 5/Freestyle Libre 2 Plus hybrid closed loop? If so (if you are trialling that specific system, assuming you have not signed a non disclosure agreement concerning the trial), might you be able/willing to say whether you are content or...

It is great news that Professor Kar and his colleagues have gotten this over the line. They deserves massive congratulations. It is right that young people up to the age of 18 will, - if they want to - benefit from the new technology immediately with the only criteria being Type 1. Pregnant...

Hello @barrym I have seven days left before I can try the new LibreLink 2.10, but I'm reading on other forums that Abbott's update is.......underwhelming. I hear there is still no home screen widget on smartphones. If you want to have a widget on your smartphone but want to do that using a...

From the NHS's perspective, the Libre 2 is used and prescribed because - at the moment - it is cheaper for them to buy off Abbott (cost to NHS: £35 per sensor) than the Libre 3 is to buy (current guesstimate cost to NHS: £75 per sensor). I think you are right though, eventually we will all...

@Antje77 I will be interested to hear how things play out in the Netherlands. From a healthcare perspective, I would hope that your politicians and healthcare service would not allow any changes that might affect adversely the provision of care to diabetic patients or the cost to them of that...

Sorry @lawrence21360, I don't understand the question you're asking. What, precisely, have you paid £110 for? I imagine Abbott became concerned for their future UK sales when Dexcom brought out the Dexcom One, which is real time cgm but a stripped down version of the G6 (and still only 10 days...

Someone has posted on Facebook this morning that from mid-july 2023, and following a software update to Librelink, the Freestyle Libre 2 sensor will become a real time continuous glucose monitor giving minute-by-minute readings on a compatible smartphone. Apparently, the updated Librelink will...

Someone has posted on Facebook this morning that from mid-july 2023, and following a software update to Librelink, the Freestyle Libre 2 sensor will become a real time continuous glucose monitor in the United Kingdom, giving minute-by-minute readings on a compatible smartphone. Apparently, the...

Someone has posted on Facebook this morning that from mid-july 2023, and following a software update to Librelink, the Freestyle Libre 2 sensor will become a real time continuous glucose monitor giving minute-by-minute readings on compatible smartphones. Apparently, the updated Librelink app...

@Blanchoid my understanding is that the NHS (in England) have no legal mechanism to allow any patient to "pay the difference" in cost between what the NHS are willing to pay for a medical device (or drug) and the price the manufacturer of that medical device (or drug) wants for the product. For...

@Ipodlistener I'm not sure the NHS does get a massive discount for the Libre 3 at the moment. In another thread on this forum, someone was told by their consultant that 12 months supply of the Libre 3 costs the NHS £1,800. If that is correct, each Libre 3 sensor costs roughly the same as a...

Congratulations @Zinadane! I'm envious. Unfortunately, if the Libre 3 is currently costing the NHS as much as some of us think it is, integrated care systems (the former clinical commissioning groups) will do everything they can to avoid paying for Libre 3s for as long as possible. The health...

I cannot believe we are still discussing the fact that at times when glucose levels in interstitial fluid are rising or falling rapidly that a glucose monitor sensor may have difficulty producing instantaneous glucose data for the user and will ask the user to check again at some point in future...

Hello Has anyone been offered the opportunity to begin using the Omnipod 5 pump in England next week?