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<blockquote data-quote="bobcurly" data-source="post: 1464360" data-attributes="member: 243483"><p>I dont think anyone can answer this fully for you. The first thing is to check out if/when you are entitled to nhs care - thats all on the nhs england website. Nhs care funds the insulin and testing strips. However pumps are funded by the local clinical commissioning group which is decided by which gp you are registered with. Having registered with a gp (and so belonging to a ccg) then you would need to see which pump(s) that ccg funds as not all ccgs fund all pumps. This is why you see people posting that they have s choice of 3 pumps etc. The gp would have to refer you to a hospital and they would apply to the ccg. If they dont fund your pump the hospital can do an individual fund request but theres no guarantee thatthe ifr would go through. In that case they should offer you the pump they do fund instead. As to cgm its only funded in very very rare cases - most of us buy libres instead. As you can imagine different ccgs take different times to agree pumps - my daughters took a week, other people wait months as you will see on this site. So i.m afraid there is no direct answer. How much should you bring? Well if we were moving to sa then the gp would give 3 months supply and after that you are not entitled to any more on the nhs</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobcurly, post: 1464360, member: 243483"] I dont think anyone can answer this fully for you. The first thing is to check out if/when you are entitled to nhs care - thats all on the nhs england website. Nhs care funds the insulin and testing strips. However pumps are funded by the local clinical commissioning group which is decided by which gp you are registered with. Having registered with a gp (and so belonging to a ccg) then you would need to see which pump(s) that ccg funds as not all ccgs fund all pumps. This is why you see people posting that they have s choice of 3 pumps etc. The gp would have to refer you to a hospital and they would apply to the ccg. If they dont fund your pump the hospital can do an individual fund request but theres no guarantee thatthe ifr would go through. In that case they should offer you the pump they do fund instead. As to cgm its only funded in very very rare cases - most of us buy libres instead. As you can imagine different ccgs take different times to agree pumps - my daughters took a week, other people wait months as you will see on this site. So i.m afraid there is no direct answer. How much should you bring? Well if we were moving to sa then the gp would give 3 months supply and after that you are not entitled to any more on the nhs [/QUOTE]
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