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<blockquote data-quote="paulliljeros" data-source="post: 1126471" data-attributes="member: 220050"><p>The thing with the CCG is that they operate to a check list, and I guess are not necessarily experts in diabetes. Therefore, if <em>for example</em> the criteria is that the A1c must be above 59, but an applicants is 58, then they automatically fail on that particular criteria. Whilst I appreciate there has to be cut-offs, and there has to be guidelines, diabetes is clearly not black and white, yet the funding decisions very much are. If you want to play the honesty game straight down the line, then I hold my hat off to you, but on that basis, I'm afraid if you don't qualify, you don't qualify.</p><p>You could easily make yourself qualify by stopping injections, over eating etc and raising your A1c, or over injecting or under eating and giving yourself hypos, but I do not believe that is the right approach. I genuinely believe that you should not be penalised for taking such good control of your diabetes, and if I needed to justify a pump I would look at my options and, for example, knew that micro dosing would perfect by BG AND qualify me for a pump, then that is exactly what I would do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="paulliljeros, post: 1126471, member: 220050"] The thing with the CCG is that they operate to a check list, and I guess are not necessarily experts in diabetes. Therefore, if [I]for example[/I] the criteria is that the A1c must be above 59, but an applicants is 58, then they automatically fail on that particular criteria. Whilst I appreciate there has to be cut-offs, and there has to be guidelines, diabetes is clearly not black and white, yet the funding decisions very much are. If you want to play the honesty game straight down the line, then I hold my hat off to you, but on that basis, I'm afraid if you don't qualify, you don't qualify. You could easily make yourself qualify by stopping injections, over eating etc and raising your A1c, or over injecting or under eating and giving yourself hypos, but I do not believe that is the right approach. I genuinely believe that you should not be penalised for taking such good control of your diabetes, and if I needed to justify a pump I would look at my options and, for example, knew that micro dosing would perfect by BG AND qualify me for a pump, then that is exactly what I would do. [/QUOTE]
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