Novarapid and Lantus question

[Jaylee]

Are you sure your pharmacy isn't just being difficult?. I don't remember ever needing a script for syringes (but I'm 20 years out of date) and they're amazingly cheap to buy online in the UK (12 pounds for 100!), so I'm guessing they'll be cheap at a pharmacy. My diabetic clinics always handed out pens as though they were lollies so I never needed to ask a pharmacy for one till I got to NZ. (And I swear the NZ pens are less durable, sigh.)

Ellie,

Everything on the NHS needs to be accounted for. There are also protocols at the pharmacy.

DSNs may well hand out the odd reusable pen or a meter. (Had it myself many up years ago. To send me on my way & get me started.) But that tends to be what a company rep may have left behind..