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<blockquote data-quote="Copernicus" data-source="post: 1728168" data-attributes="member: 377230"><p>Thought I would update you after my meeting with my G.P. this morning. Basically she agreed that it is a post code lottery as to who will get the Libre on the NHS. More affluent areas are getting it but poorer ares such as the North East will almost certainly not get it. She informed me that she had contacted one of the specialists to see if I qualified by the fact that I blood tested at least 8 times a day, which I do using Libre, but was told that the blood testing had to be finger prick testing which I only rarely do these days. This would mean I would have to stop using Libre and go back to painful testing, just to try and get the Libre. This I am not prepared to do. Even though she agreed that my control is better than it ever has been and she agreed this was down to me using Libre, I stood virtually no chance of getting this on the NHS. I wish the Government had never agreed for the Libre system to be made available on the NHS as I believe it has given false hope to hundreds if not thousands of Type 1 diabetics.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copernicus, post: 1728168, member: 377230"] Thought I would update you after my meeting with my G.P. this morning. Basically she agreed that it is a post code lottery as to who will get the Libre on the NHS. More affluent areas are getting it but poorer ares such as the North East will almost certainly not get it. She informed me that she had contacted one of the specialists to see if I qualified by the fact that I blood tested at least 8 times a day, which I do using Libre, but was told that the blood testing had to be finger prick testing which I only rarely do these days. This would mean I would have to stop using Libre and go back to painful testing, just to try and get the Libre. This I am not prepared to do. Even though she agreed that my control is better than it ever has been and she agreed this was down to me using Libre, I stood virtually no chance of getting this on the NHS. I wish the Government had never agreed for the Libre system to be made available on the NHS as I believe it has given false hope to hundreds if not thousands of Type 1 diabetics. [/QUOTE]
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