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<blockquote data-quote="urbanracer" data-source="post: 1714733" data-attributes="member: 140811"><p>In principle I'd agree and the NHS needs to take a longer term view and accept that giving us the ability to maintain better control of our BG levels may actually reduce long term costs of diabetes care.</p><p></p><p>The practicalities are somewhat different though. Abbot cannot keep up with the current demand (I am back to finger pricking whilst I wait for my 3 week old order to arrive) and I feel that there's no point in opening up the market right now anyway.</p><p></p><p>We can only hope that the new financial year allows CCG's to plan for CGM in annual budgets and that Abbott Labs finds a way to drastically increase the production quantities of sensors (without sacrificing quality, which isn't great now) but I'm not holding my breath for either.</p><p></p><p>So unfortunately I would have to conclude that some sort of prioritisation is inevitable in the short to medium term. Would be quite good though if it were standardised in some way so that availability does not come down to the usual postcode lottery shambles that we seem to be experiencing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="urbanracer, post: 1714733, member: 140811"] In principle I'd agree and the NHS needs to take a longer term view and accept that giving us the ability to maintain better control of our BG levels may actually reduce long term costs of diabetes care. The practicalities are somewhat different though. Abbot cannot keep up with the current demand (I am back to finger pricking whilst I wait for my 3 week old order to arrive) and I feel that there's no point in opening up the market right now anyway. We can only hope that the new financial year allows CCG's to plan for CGM in annual budgets and that Abbott Labs finds a way to drastically increase the production quantities of sensors (without sacrificing quality, which isn't great now) but I'm not holding my breath for either. So unfortunately I would have to conclude that some sort of prioritisation is inevitable in the short to medium term. Would be quite good though if it were standardised in some way so that availability does not come down to the usual postcode lottery shambles that we seem to be experiencing. [/QUOTE]
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