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Message: <blockquote data-quote="phoenix" data-source="post: 928522" data-attributes="member: 12578">Nice:   <a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg87/chapter/1-Guidance#self-monitoring-of-plasma-glucose" target="_blank">https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg87/chapter/1-Guidance#self-monitoring-of-plasma-glucose</a>The NHS isn't alone in this . It's stance is very similar to the one taken here in France (only here they are more explicit about only funding a limited amount of strips in the context of education) and in many other places both in Europe and elsewhere.British GPs are allowed to be a  little more independent than in many places and  we see on here that a few can be convinced of the benefit of  self monitoring.We see results on here from motivated people and  there is no doubt, it really helps them.The problem is that  a major  Cochrane  review of studies of people 'in general' shows  little benefit after 6 months and goes away after 12.  <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22258959" target="_blank">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22258959</a>  Any training that a GP has may well include this evidence.(and tbh there was a time when it was quite obvious that a number  of those with prescriptions  sold their strips on Ebay- to those who wanted them but couldn't get prescriptions)DUK doesn't like it ; hence the pack</blockquote>

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