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<blockquote data-quote="donnellysdogs" data-source="post: 190599" data-attributes="member: 17713"><p>But this instance wasn't for research or a clinical interest in their use. Abbot rep did NOT technically have a clinical interest in their use, only a 'sell' for their product-I do not believe that would be seen as a clinical interest.</p><p>However.....</p><p>I had the same sort of thing, where my hospital purchased one type of pump from one manufacturer, and I wasn't given a choice of pump at all. Saying that, I do believe that I had the best choice of pump, and am very happy with it, it was an excellent choice by the hospital. I didn't have to pay for it, and it was a brilliant choice.</p><p></p><p>I see that the NHS have to save money, and 'buying in bulk' for meters could be more cost effective for them. This has been going on though for many, many years, as I felt myself lucky that when I was diagnosed I had to pay (or rather my dad did!!) £100 for a meter-and I wasn't given a choice of meter then either. Nowadays we can be given meters free of charge, so what would we rather be doing paying or accepting freebies. £100 for a meter 25 years ago was ALOT of money, my house then only cost £18,000 to buy, so propertionally to todays money value's, meters could actually be ALOT more.</p><p></p><p>The data aspect of giving out details of patients to a rep for a 'selling' point does concern me, but changing of meters to keep costs down, which will allow money to be used elsewhere has to make sense in ANY business, not just the NHS. Any PLC or Limited Company outside the NHS would be acting in the same way, so I can't blame the NHS for trying to limit where they spend moneys etc...</p><p></p><p>The only other thing that may be worth while looking at, is the cost of strips from the abbot meter to the USB one....if Abbots strips are more expensive then it would not make true financial sense. I don't know the costs involved with strips though...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donnellysdogs, post: 190599, member: 17713"] But this instance wasn't for research or a clinical interest in their use. Abbot rep did NOT technically have a clinical interest in their use, only a 'sell' for their product-I do not believe that would be seen as a clinical interest. However..... I had the same sort of thing, where my hospital purchased one type of pump from one manufacturer, and I wasn't given a choice of pump at all. Saying that, I do believe that I had the best choice of pump, and am very happy with it, it was an excellent choice by the hospital. I didn't have to pay for it, and it was a brilliant choice. I see that the NHS have to save money, and 'buying in bulk' for meters could be more cost effective for them. This has been going on though for many, many years, as I felt myself lucky that when I was diagnosed I had to pay (or rather my dad did!!) £100 for a meter-and I wasn't given a choice of meter then either. Nowadays we can be given meters free of charge, so what would we rather be doing paying or accepting freebies. £100 for a meter 25 years ago was ALOT of money, my house then only cost £18,000 to buy, so propertionally to todays money value's, meters could actually be ALOT more. The data aspect of giving out details of patients to a rep for a 'selling' point does concern me, but changing of meters to keep costs down, which will allow money to be used elsewhere has to make sense in ANY business, not just the NHS. Any PLC or Limited Company outside the NHS would be acting in the same way, so I can't blame the NHS for trying to limit where they spend moneys etc... The only other thing that may be worth while looking at, is the cost of strips from the abbot meter to the USB one....if Abbots strips are more expensive then it would not make true financial sense. I don't know the costs involved with strips though... [/QUOTE]
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