Glucose monitors - all one unit, do they exist?

I used to use an Accucheck BG monitor which took a cassette of 50 test strips within the machine unit and clipped the fingerpricker to the side of the machine meaning it was very easy to carry around. My GP has told me that they can no longer get the test cassettes for this machine and have given me a new one (Fine Test Lite smart) which is frankly awful. I have tried loads of different meters over the years and can't quite believe that we are still basically using the same meters as 20 years ago (albeit with a bit more Bluetooth etc, and actually 20 years ago I used to have some that were quite small and easy to carry around) they all seem to be huge clunky things! So are there any BG meters out there that don't require their own separate handbag to cart all the peripheral bits around with them?

I have the Freestyle Libre and love it, and would cheerfully never do another fingerprint test, but the DVLA insists I have to do 2 per day because I have an HGV licence.

Nicola M said:

I used to also use this monitor until mine died on me I now use the BetaChek C50, which does the exact same thing, Everything is combined into one compact meter and my GP had no issues with adding the strips and finger pricking stuff onto my repeats

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Amazing, thank you. I will look at this one