Reply to Thread

Guest, we'd love to know what you think about the forum! Take the Diabetes Forum Survey 2025 »

Message: <blockquote data-quote="jopar" data-source="post: 142892" data-attributes="member: 11712">I have my bloods a week before going to clinic, so the consultant has my latest available to him..As for home HbA1c testing, I peronsally can't see the point, if you already doing your bg testing and this is fine, you HbA1c is also likely to be fine..As to why Abbott don't sale there HbA1c meter here...  It's all to do with licencing of the product before it can be sold here or in Europe...Licencing a medical device for use is complex and very expensive, The advantage with licencing in America is that you get a much larger catchment of people to sell the product too as you deal..  In Europe you first need to gain the licence first then individual countries afterwards..  So it's more cost effective to release in America first, see how your product is recieved and whether any unknown problems araise with mass use..  Then you go through the rigimole of sorting out the European side of things..It all to do with cost of licencing in each area nothing to do with what health care system any country got..</blockquote>

Top Bottom