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Cheaper Meters for NHS.

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That's pretty grim reading...

The way I see it that's generic appropriation of a very individual disease. In other words can we buy your patients please and treat them all the same. Possibly like a debt agency buying debt. For such an English system we truly have become far more Americanised in our new NHS than I realised. There is a similar Telemedicine company engaged with our PCT to provide a uniform 'care package'.

Telemedicine in it's TRUE sense is very good and more importantly is tailored rather than a cookie cutter solution to a wide ranging problem. However companies like this (which describes itself as a Healthcare Product Retailer) automate and 'standardise' the method, approach and equipment used by all patients ... I wonder if you get an office paper clip banging on the meter window when your sugars are low or a dog wagging it's tail telling you it's time for a walk because your sugars are too high. This will definitely put in place an even more substandard service and allow one entity to define the standards of measurement and equipment used by all patients. It can only mean one thing folks ... it's the next sure fire way to make money ... anybody any good at web design ?

All the best.

Richard (The Capitalist Pig Dog ... standing atop a mound of corpses ... enjoying the life around him ?) *takes tongue out of cheek*

In all honesty, on the page 'what can we do for PCT's' under the heading cost analysis there third point states – 'we can help you reduce the number of patients on blood glucose meters' ... and that's where they intend to make money savings for the PCT. They can do all this without meeting the individual or even being medically qualified ... but in order for the PCT to save money in the first place then this 'company' basically needs not to give so much of their products to the PCT ... so they are giving a service without actually erm ... giving a service?

Hope your insured peeps.

Richard.
 
RichardNY said:
In all honesty, on the page 'what can we do for PCT's' under the heading cost analysis there third point states – 'we can help you reduce the number of patients on blood glucose meters' ... and that's where they intend to make money savings for the PCT. They can do all this without meeting the individual or even being medically qualified ... but in order for the PCT to save money in the first place then this 'company' basically needs not to give so much of their products to the PCT ... so they are giving a service without actually erm ... giving a service?

Hope your insured peeps.

Richard.
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Clearly taking away the meters will blind us to what is happening and so they think we will become mute :!:
Do they really think we will not notice the complications setting in :?:

Once again it is all about short term cost cutting without any thought to the future. In that future there will be astronomical costs both financial, physical and emotional, not only to the NHS but to every family affected by penny pinching in the past, and those costs will be truly staggering and crippling! :evil: :shock:
 
"Monitoring glucose is extremely important - knowing blood glucose levels can help prevent serious morbidity and mortality particularly when on certain diabetes medication".

http://www.spirit-healthcare.co.uk/caresensn.html

So we will tell your PCT who can and cannot have a meter to save costs but when it comes to our products, this is the message. :? :? :? Perhaps the above only applies if you fund the cost of their meters and strips?
 
It is staggering that the two halves of this operation are so very different – just as darkness is to light. :shock:
It is quite frightening when you consider the lengths that some will go to in order to enrich themselves at the expense of those unfortunate enough to have a condition which requires expenditure. Obviously this is all in the pursuit of money and it would be no exaggeration to describe it as sheer wickedness. :twisted:
 
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