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<blockquote data-quote="EllieM" data-source="post: 1785542" data-attributes="member: 372717"><p>I've had both private and public care in the UK, Australia and now New Zealand.</p><p>I think I was private during childhood in the UK (went to see a private diabetes specialist but my parents paid so am not 100% sure). All I know is that my treatment improved dramatically when I went to Addenbrookes hospital in Cambridge as an adult student and they handed me my first glucometer (we'd like to get your hbA1C below 13) and suggested I could move to 4 injections a day basal/bolus regime. (Though to be fair, no one who was diagnosed this century can appreciate just how much difference it made to have a glucometer. and that's a timeline thing rather than the fault of my private specialist.) I then spent 15 years in London attending Hammersmith hospital - awesome awesome care via the public system and two healthy children. (Thank you NHS).</p><p>I spent 17 years in Australia seeing a private specialist which was so so, in retrospect I think I would have preferred public. In NZ for the last year I've been public and treatment has been great, better than Australia.</p><p></p><p>So, I'd tentatively agree that if you've got a decent public clinic near you you should use that, and save your money for cgm monitoring. If you hate your local clinic, or you're stuck with a poor GP, then go private.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EllieM, post: 1785542, member: 372717"] I've had both private and public care in the UK, Australia and now New Zealand. I think I was private during childhood in the UK (went to see a private diabetes specialist but my parents paid so am not 100% sure). All I know is that my treatment improved dramatically when I went to Addenbrookes hospital in Cambridge as an adult student and they handed me my first glucometer (we'd like to get your hbA1C below 13) and suggested I could move to 4 injections a day basal/bolus regime. (Though to be fair, no one who was diagnosed this century can appreciate just how much difference it made to have a glucometer. and that's a timeline thing rather than the fault of my private specialist.) I then spent 15 years in London attending Hammersmith hospital - awesome awesome care via the public system and two healthy children. (Thank you NHS). I spent 17 years in Australia seeing a private specialist which was so so, in retrospect I think I would have preferred public. In NZ for the last year I've been public and treatment has been great, better than Australia. So, I'd tentatively agree that if you've got a decent public clinic near you you should use that, and save your money for cgm monitoring. If you hate your local clinic, or you're stuck with a poor GP, then go private. [/QUOTE]
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