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<blockquote data-quote="martineking" data-source="post: 777984" data-attributes="member: 144172"><p>Hi I have had type 1 diabetes for 22 plus years, I filled out exemption certificate when first diagnosed and was told by the G.P this would make me exempt for life. I received exemption certificate cards there after until about 8 years ago, told my G.p and he told me I was exempt for life and did not need a new certificate. then in december last year I got a penalty notice spoke to the agency who claimed they could not find any evidence I ever had one and that they only lasted 5 years , and you had to renew them did some investigating and discovered that the department of health had sold the contract for exemption certificates to this recent company recently, and that the information had not been transfered over to them. spoke to diabetes u.k careline who told me they had been looking into this as 1000 of diabetics had been effected there chief executive had had a meeting with DOH who agreed that they would not send penalties to diabetics but letters to warn them to get valid exemption certificates which they have not done I was advised to talk to my M.P which I have, awaiting what will happen next, but I will not be paying the penalty notice. Plus your exemption certificates are not automatically reissued as some of you have quoted you have to do it if you don't it will just run out and they will only back date exemption certificate for 1 month end of. I also think that some of the threads on this feed have been quite offensive to people and living with our condition is bad enough and if you have had it since a teenager like myself you are not properly informed like newly diagnosed mainly type 2 diabetics are today if you are diagnosed as a child you do not pay for prescriptions anyway.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="martineking, post: 777984, member: 144172"] Hi I have had type 1 diabetes for 22 plus years, I filled out exemption certificate when first diagnosed and was told by the G.P this would make me exempt for life. I received exemption certificate cards there after until about 8 years ago, told my G.p and he told me I was exempt for life and did not need a new certificate. then in december last year I got a penalty notice spoke to the agency who claimed they could not find any evidence I ever had one and that they only lasted 5 years , and you had to renew them did some investigating and discovered that the department of health had sold the contract for exemption certificates to this recent company recently, and that the information had not been transfered over to them. spoke to diabetes u.k careline who told me they had been looking into this as 1000 of diabetics had been effected there chief executive had had a meeting with DOH who agreed that they would not send penalties to diabetics but letters to warn them to get valid exemption certificates which they have not done I was advised to talk to my M.P which I have, awaiting what will happen next, but I will not be paying the penalty notice. Plus your exemption certificates are not automatically reissued as some of you have quoted you have to do it if you don't it will just run out and they will only back date exemption certificate for 1 month end of. I also think that some of the threads on this feed have been quite offensive to people and living with our condition is bad enough and if you have had it since a teenager like myself you are not properly informed like newly diagnosed mainly type 2 diabetics are today if you are diagnosed as a child you do not pay for prescriptions anyway. [/QUOTE]
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