Diabetes complications cost GBP22 million per day

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New figures show that the diabetes drugs bill for the NHS is £2.2 million per day but, this pales in comparison to the cost of diabetes complications which is ten times higher. Figures provided by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), from the Prescribing for Diabetes report, show that the cost of prescriptions for diabetes has increased by 56.3% since 2005-2006. By comparison, the rise in diabetes diagnoses has been around 50% as 1.8 million people were diagnosed with diabetes in 2005 compared with 2.7 million in 2014. The class of drugs that represent the greatest expense to the NHS is analogue insulin which cost the NHS £289 million in the year 2013-2014. By comparison, blood glucose monitoring supplies cost £172 million within the last year. With the rising prevalence of diabetes driving the growth in cost of diabetes drugs, action to prevent diabetes developing is an important part of limiting the costs of diabetes. Whilst Clinical Commissioning Group may feel under pressure to reduce the prescribing costs of diabetes it is they recognise the importance of people having access to effective diabetes medication and the means to manage their diabetes as this will prevent the cost of diabetes complications from growing. With complications representing ten times the cost of diabetes drugs and monitoring supplies, any short sighted cost cutting could represent a much greater cost increase in terms of diabetes complications.

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Hello to all, I never over ate, to cause my weight problems, medication in the past played it's part, the injection of depo-provara every 8 weeks had a major impact on my weight increasing greatly, which I have never been able to get off, no matter how hard I tried. Then an under active thyroid was diagnosed and so went onto the medication and continued to see if any difference occured, maybe there was, as I felt a bit thinner and more with it. Then following a shunt in my car, and then ffeling really rough and not with it, blood tests revealed that I had become a t2, and the diabetic medication commenced, and the watching what I ate, to work at getting things under control. Now all these years down the road and although the numbers are going down my weight is still here and I am sat here feeling very bloated and my belly sticking out anf the skirt waistband is tight. So will have to decide what and were to go next with the planning, ttfn