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<blockquote data-quote="Scott-C" data-source="post: 1621680" data-attributes="member: 374531"><p>It's a moving game at the moment, Emma, and no-one knows how it's going to play out. </p><p></p><p>It has similarities to when the old fashioned colour changing strips were regarded as the latest cutting edge expensive technology, then they became quaint when meters came out. </p><p></p><p>Didn't have the internet back then, so I don't know if there was any fuss about how colour changing strips were good enough and people didn't really need expensive meters, but I reckon there was probably some noise about that at the time, similar to what's happening now.</p><p></p><p>I'm quietly confident that all that's going on at the moment is a bit of fuss because it's a relatively new technology, but once it settles in, the benefits over strips will become obvious and in a few years time, people will be wondering why there was a fuss.</p><p></p><p>Abbott got a bit of flack for getting people's hopes up by announcing it was now on the NHS, without apparently realising that it's up to ccgs to approve availability, but I reckon they've played a canny game. Abbott is an 88 billion dollar market cap international company, they've got a lot of extremely smart people working for them, so I reckon the announcement was intended to drum up expectations and a groundswell of pressure from users like we're seeing now - although I think it's putting unfair demand on front line providers having to deal with constant requests from us lot even though they can't call the shots on the ccg decision, that sort of demand can influence things in subtle ways in the minds of the decision makers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scott-C, post: 1621680, member: 374531"] It's a moving game at the moment, Emma, and no-one knows how it's going to play out. It has similarities to when the old fashioned colour changing strips were regarded as the latest cutting edge expensive technology, then they became quaint when meters came out. Didn't have the internet back then, so I don't know if there was any fuss about how colour changing strips were good enough and people didn't really need expensive meters, but I reckon there was probably some noise about that at the time, similar to what's happening now. I'm quietly confident that all that's going on at the moment is a bit of fuss because it's a relatively new technology, but once it settles in, the benefits over strips will become obvious and in a few years time, people will be wondering why there was a fuss. Abbott got a bit of flack for getting people's hopes up by announcing it was now on the NHS, without apparently realising that it's up to ccgs to approve availability, but I reckon they've played a canny game. Abbott is an 88 billion dollar market cap international company, they've got a lot of extremely smart people working for them, so I reckon the announcement was intended to drum up expectations and a groundswell of pressure from users like we're seeing now - although I think it's putting unfair demand on front line providers having to deal with constant requests from us lot even though they can't call the shots on the ccg decision, that sort of demand can influence things in subtle ways in the minds of the decision makers. [/QUOTE]
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