Brightside
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Diet only
I just looked that one up. The regulation for those on Sulfs etc doesn't 'require'. It's very woolly unless you have a group 2 licence when you have to test twice a day and at times relevant to driving. For those with a normal car licence it says https://www.gov.uk/current-medical-guidelines-dvla-guidance-for-professionals-conditions-d-to-f@Brightside,
Don't forget that if you are on a insulin inducing med like gliclazide, then you are required to test before driving and at least every 2 hours to ensure your BG is above 5! (DVLA regs!)
My views on type 2 BG testing seems to be evolving rapidly.
I think it is vital to dietary control, and I test up to 5+ times a day, if my food intake warrants it.
But do I think the NHS should automatically pick up the tab? Not any more.
I now think that type 2s on low incomes who cannot afford testing should be supplied with meter and strips.
People like myself, who can afford to, should be buying their own.
I costs me 70p a day, or £5 a week. Most people earning above minimum wage can afford this.
The days of the NHS picking up every tab in some caring mother hen role are over.
The NHS is now groaning in agony. Staff are stressed, exhausted and over worked. Hospital hygiene levels are appalling. Underfunding is rife. The system simply cannot provide non essentials, and on a scale of medical necessities, then type 2 BG testing is lower on the scale than many other things.
I would definitely like to see all diabetics, whatever their type, testing several times daily. But I don't think it is possible for the NHS to pick up the tab for diet controlled type 2s.
very noble indeed, you should ask for a reduction in your contributions though as you are not getting what you pay for....the NHS is a monstrosity with many inefficiencies brought on by a lack of competition. Sorry to put it so bluntly, but I have lived through various health care systems and the NHS are the worst. It starts off that my GP instead of helping me is more of a gatekeeper than a doctor....the fact that the hospitals are a mess is purely down to poor management....a private hospital can run with half the staff. At least give me a choice and I will go private, fully private not the private we have today that pays for acute but not chronic, but our government wont allow this...Anyway this is not what the forum is aboutbut its exactly this kind of thinking that we should support the NHS that has lead to complacency in the NHS. A large part of my salary goes into funding the NHS, but when I get poor service I cannot go elsewhere....not good.
I think you may be breaching some NHS rule...I seem to remember that patients needing Herceptin (Breast cancer medication that costs a fortune) were told....should they purchase their own then they would be going outside the NHS and therefore would lose their right to further NHS treatment...this was a few years ago when NICE refuted the efficacy of Herceptin even though the rest of mankind was using it as a major defense against the disease...due to media pressure they finally relented, but unfortunately if you are a man with breast cancer in the UK you still wont get the medication....it simply costs too much and us males are more expendable than females it would appear....This is slightly off topic but interesting. When my supply of test strips was stopped I got the phone call from the pharmacist. I was only supplied enough to test once a day and so had been augmenting my supply by buying them.
Anyway she phoned and said that I was to get no more strips. Thinking I was being helpful I said, "That's OK I know where to buy them", and she said, "I'll pretend I didn't hear that".
Does this mean I am not allowed to buy my own either.
very noble indeed, you should ask for a reduction in your contributions though as you are not getting what you pay for....the NHS is a monstrosity with many inefficiencies brought on by a lack of competition. Sorry to put it so bluntly, but I have lived through various health care systems and the NHS are the worst. It starts off that my GP instead of helping me is more of a gatekeeper than a doctor....the fact that the hospitals are a mess is purely down to poor management....a private hospital can run with half the staff. At least give me a choice and I will go private, fully private not the private we have today that pays for acute but not chronic, but our government wont allow this...Anyway this is not what the forum is aboutbut its exactly this kind of thinking that we should support the NHS that has lead to complacency in the NHS. A large part of my salary goes into funding the NHS, but when I get poor service I cannot go elsewhere....not good.
I think you may be breaching some NHS rule...I seem to remember that patients needing Herceptin (Breast cancer medication that costs a fortune) were told....should they purchase their own then they would be going outside the NHS and therefore would lose their right to further NHS treatment...
Hi folks I'm a bit perturbed? Diagnosed typ 2 .... 3 months ago!
Was given a bg star glucose monitor....great! Started testing 3-4 times a day at first, now once a day fasting.
The issue is I asked my doc to prescribe me 2x 50 strips so that I reduce the no of times I need to get a prescription, run to the pharmacy etcetc also want a repeat prescription.
The message came back...."no....reduce the amount of testing to once a week"
My sugars are stable at between 5-7 mmol every morning! Although he doesn't know this!
I have enough medformin and cliczlazide for an army....but test strips appear to be a problem?..
I feel the nhs would rather see us using medication than allowing us to monitor and control our sugars with diet and healthy living!
I think NICE (national institute for cost evasion....arhg I mean national institute for clinical excellence) have dictated that testing should be reduced???
Any one feel the same, any comments?
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