Prescriptions

[emily deacon]

Hi Guys,

My diabetes consultant gave me a new blog d glucose monitor, which i loved but my gp prescribed me another monitor because it’s cheaper. My consultant maybe a year later prescribed me with another blood glucose monitor that would benefit me more and again they have put me back on the cheapest one. Does anyone else have this?

 

[Rokaab]

Get your consultant to write to your doctors, showing the meter and strips that he/she has prescribed you. The doctors should follow the consultants suggestions.

A while back my docs changed me to some cheap strips, but when I went to the carb counting course last year where they gave me a new meter and a letter to give to the docs about needing strips for it, and since then I've had the strips for the better meter from my docs (my docs did also put a note on the prescription list saying 'For carb counting' so I guess that will remind them not to get rid of them). So they should take note of a letter from your consultant in the same way, if they don't let the consultant know.

 

[emily deacon]

Good idea thank you!

 

[emily deacon]

I was also given mine for carb counting and they changed them. Hopefully my consultant can help me with this

 

[satindoll]

My GP's practice managers have tried on occasion to do this, till I point out to them that as I am injecting what is to others a poison on a regular daily basis and trust my meter implicitly, even NICE have said patients should not be forced to change meters for cost reasons.