These articles seem to miss the postcode lottery around how the recommendations are being interpreted.
My CCG would answer "yes" to the question of whether Libre are being prescribed. However, the number of people getting them is incredibly small and they have to justify continuation after 6 month. If the criteria they satisfied was two DKA hospitalisation and they don't get hospitalised in the 6 months with the Libre it may be taken away from them because they don't satisfy that criteria any more.