Shielding letter

Diabetes in itself does not get you a self-isolating letter, though if you have other conditions they may qualify you.
Only extremely vulnerable people get the letter, high-risk do not.

Murray589 said:

Hi looking some advice I'm a type 1 diabetic and phoned my GP doctor and they say I dont get a letter bout self isolating tho it say on the government page the people with diabetes are high risk so am I in tittle to a letter are do I just go back to work if any one can help me in this matter be much appreciated thanks

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Hi I received shielding letter from g.p I am type 1 diabetic and last Hba1c was 81mmol/mol

paulm10 said:

Hi I received shielding letter from g.p I am type 1 diabetic and last Hba1c was 81mmol/mol

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An HbA1c over 79 will qualify you for the letter.

LooperCat said:

An HbA1c over 79 will qualify you for the letter.

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I'm glad it wasn't back in October when this all started then. Mine was 79 but got it down to around 50 since then thankfully

LooperCat said:

An HbA1c over 79 will qualify you for the letter.

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do you have a reference for that?

I found an article saying something very similar a few days ago, on the Pulsetoday.co.uk website, but when I tried to go back there, it required I sign in with a healthcare professional ID - which I don’t have. Very frustrating.

If anyone can provide a ref to this criteria that isn’t sitting behind a professional wall, I would be very grateful!

Brunneria said:

do you have a reference for that?

I found an article saying something very similar a few days ago, on the Pulsetoday.co.uk website, but when I tried to go back there, it required I sign in with a healthcare professional ID - which I don’t have. Very frustrating.

If anyone can provide a ref to this criteria that isn’t sitting behind a professional wall, I would be very grateful!

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It was the link you posted. They seem to have changed the access criteria, when I went back to check, I couldn’t get in either.

LooperCat said:

It was the link you posted. They seem to have changed the access criteria, when I went back to check, I couldn’t get in either.

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frustrating, innit?

Hi I took a screen shot. How things change in 3 weeks. I would like to believe it's because they have suddenly discovered we are less at risk. I feel however that it would not be economically viable if all of those who deemed vulnerable as in receipt of flu jabs self isolated,or the structure would be there to support them. It's a very grey area with some diabetics told to go home on full pay,some told to work or potentially starve. Government advice seems to be to stringently socially distance,strongly advised not to work,see people etc unless key worker. If keyworker in most cases impossible to work from home so options limited.