Less than 1 in 5 newly diagnosed type 2 patients have their diabetes under control

It does seem strange that the UK has such in place because here in Canada T2s are expected to test daily (some once a day other's multi times and the odd few once a month [if tightly controlled for enough years, like my mom]) if not several times a day if on insulin or other drugs that can have an effect on lowering glucose. We also don't get scripts for Needles or Test Strips (or we've never gotten them) we buy them OTC and if your lucky enough to have insurance to cover it great other wise its an out of pocket cost (which gets costly when your unemployed n can't find a government program to help you or don't qualify for the program for various reasons).

I really do no understand how the UK does this or why they do it as it runs counter for all I know for treating D of any type and keeping the person around without complications.

@Nyxks

I have to ask - what is going on in your profile pic?

Back on topic:
Yes. I agree. Without regular testing I would never keep such tight control over my BG. And before buying my monitor, I stuck to sensible food choices far less than now.

@Brunneria the pic is a close up shot of my mascot head that I redid some years ago (was fooling around with the camera on my laptop and got a few shots that I liked and have been using them ever since as my AVs online).

I know for my mom she'd only have the tight control she has now because of testing (she use to test 10+ times a day - though past 10 years she's also gone vegetarian and is now down to only needing to test once a month - when in hospital she's always at 5.3 might hit 5.5 her a1c are normal non diabetic levels now. I'm far from that, but she T2 i'm T1 so different management types needed.

I'm not at all suppressed, I just wonder how many people diagnosed type 2 have any idea of having Diabetes, when Diagnosed.
In South Africa were I live, I've heard of figures of over 50% of people Diagnosed had no idea of being Diabetic.
Just picked up in routine tests

@Nyxks
The UK is far from alone in it's attitude to testing and T2. Fewer and fewer countries are supporting routine testing for people with T2 who are diet controlled or use just metformin.
This report from your own country seems to say the same http://www.cadth.ca/en/products/optimal-use/self-monitoring
Unfortunately. there were several randomised trials which when reviewed by the Cochrane collaboration pointed to small benefit for the first six months after diagnosis which then subsided. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD005060.pub3/abstract
It is true that testing and writing the readings down will not anyone much. From an economic point of view, paying for strips that don't make much if any difference is obviously throwing money down the drain.
What randomised trials don't capture is the value to motivated people who make use of the results.
I live in France and they are now very limited for T2s not on insulin but they can be prescribed for a period of 'education'