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<blockquote data-quote="Celsus" data-source="post: 1757849" data-attributes="member: 185674"><p>I am not affiliated with Abbott at all !</p><p>(actually as it is, working for one of their worst competitors. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />, but we don't do diabetes related stuff at all though, so I can speak freely here)</p><p>But I can assure you that Abbott is doing everything possible to scale up their production of Libre Sensors for the UK market!</p><p>For all the many good reasons that you even list yourself there. Because if they don't, alternative products from competitors comes in and take over the patient preferences. And due to human nature, changing brand/material from something you already started to use is a big step and delayed to be last option for any patient, even despite some patients have different adverse opinion about the material they use. Change is always hard. </p><p>The market uptake for Libre has been a fantastic success and gone beyond wildest expectations and therefor also beyond their demand planning etc at Abbott. But its a very professional company with many good people, so they are working on it 24/7 to catch up with that fast accelerating market. I can btw say it was close to same market development patterns in some of the other European markets they released it to. And lets not forget that the restrictions in the regulatory system which is different from one European country to the next is playing a major role here, in which a company like Abbott has only limited to actually absolute no say in. And changes to this also have a major impact in how a medical device is being utilized/promoted/wanted/pushed out of any given market.</p><p></p><p>But back to answer the question asked by the OP to this thread:</p><p>Yes, to me the Freestyle Libre has been worth it - down to every single penny!</p><p>And I paid for it out of my own pocket the first 2 years or so.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celsus, post: 1757849, member: 185674"] I am not affiliated with Abbott at all ! (actually as it is, working for one of their worst competitors. :), but we don't do diabetes related stuff at all though, so I can speak freely here) But I can assure you that Abbott is doing everything possible to scale up their production of Libre Sensors for the UK market! For all the many good reasons that you even list yourself there. Because if they don't, alternative products from competitors comes in and take over the patient preferences. And due to human nature, changing brand/material from something you already started to use is a big step and delayed to be last option for any patient, even despite some patients have different adverse opinion about the material they use. Change is always hard. The market uptake for Libre has been a fantastic success and gone beyond wildest expectations and therefor also beyond their demand planning etc at Abbott. But its a very professional company with many good people, so they are working on it 24/7 to catch up with that fast accelerating market. I can btw say it was close to same market development patterns in some of the other European markets they released it to. And lets not forget that the restrictions in the regulatory system which is different from one European country to the next is playing a major role here, in which a company like Abbott has only limited to actually absolute no say in. And changes to this also have a major impact in how a medical device is being utilized/promoted/wanted/pushed out of any given market. But back to answer the question asked by the OP to this thread: Yes, to me the Freestyle Libre has been worth it - down to every single penny! And I paid for it out of my own pocket the first 2 years or so. [/QUOTE]
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