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Just joined the diabetes.co.uk . I am not diabetic myself but im with someone who is, not realy sure is that the good place for my post but i need an advice.I moved to london few years ago but still not very familiar how the GP and all the hospitals and care organizations are working here.My girlfriend is about to join me soon and is a diabetic ,she exactly knows what to do and how to take care of BP and what insulin and how much of it to take ,take only problem is we are both foreigners and i have no idea how to buy an insulin here?! Is it possible to get a prescription from GP for more then a month? She can take some of the insulin from our origin country but it can't be for more then 3 months , she can fly back to Poland of course every 3 months but i prefer to make sure i know what to do and where to go in a case of emergency .So if anyone could give me full answer where to start when she arrives i would be very great full and one more think cause she will be not employed for a couple of months i think is it possible to get National insurance number for which i can pay monthly ? I know i can't register her in any GP without it or am i mistaken ? Please help me i tried to get those answers everywhere but it looks that this is not popular enough topic .
 
Hi,

i'm afraid i dont know much about that sort of thing, but just wanted to say hey anyway and bump your post up for more people to see so someone can answer your questions :)
 
First of all she needs to register with a doctor as soon as she is able and then the practice manager can advise her as to the correct way for getting regular prescriptions. For British nationals who are diabetic ALL prescriptions are free, but I do not know if this applies to immigrants. If this is not the case, once she has a NI and NHS number, she can buy a yearly prepayment certificate that will cover for a full 12 months and a much lower cost than paying for each item.

I think that as she is a diabetic from Poland (which is in EU) her insulin etc might be free, but her new GP's practice manager should have all the info on this.

Please come back and let us all know how she got on ...good luck! :D
 
First i want to say BIG THANK YOU for all advices and as soon i check all of this i surely reply so for anyone else with that kind of problem would be easier .Once again thank you !!!
 
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