What happened to the Bank Holiday??

[AndyS]

NICE guidelines have been a revolving door but currently they have come back to the policy that if you are T1 then your diabetes care should be directed by a hospital based diabetes specialist unit, with consultants as well as DSNs, and your GP just prescribes meds and supplies more or less as directed by the hospital team (and does somewhat pointless annual tests that duplicate what the hospital team do). In certain parts of the country this can involve significant travel to the nearest team.

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Thank you sir!

 

[AndyS]

Wow really out of my depth here. Never heard of DAFNE or NICE. I live in Bournemouth so think I will ring the Royal Bournemouth Hospital and see if I can be seen there. So glad I found this site. Thanks all.

Excellent idea. Bournemouth hospital actually have a basic online training course about carb counting and dose adjustment. Helped me get up to speed when I was first diagnosed.

 

[Spiker]

At Bournemouth you will do BDEC rather than DAFNE. And I heard that they are going to change the name of BDEC. Bournemouth are really good.

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[AndyS]

At Bournemouth you will do BDEC rather than DAFNE. And I heard that they are going to change the name of BDEC. Bournemouth are really good.

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Thanks for reminding me of the name Spiker.
You can sign up for the online bits here: http://bdec-e-learning.com/

I actually found the lessons and techniques are more or less the same as DAFNE, I subsequently adapted and added my own kind of pseudo maths which seems to work for me when calculating my changes.

 

[lizdeluz]

My DSN gave me a right going over for using a pen that was 12 years old,it was working fine,she told me I should renew them every 4 years as that is their expected life!


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I've never been proactive about diabetes equipment and have just waited for stuff to be gifted. Hence the lack of enough supplies!

 

[PhoebeFlorence]

Hi Andy and Spiker,
Glad to hear Bournemouth Hosp are good. Will go on the bdec-e-learning website now.
Thanks again for your help.

 

[AndyS]

Hmm never heard that advice before. I probably do change them about that often, just through loss or breakage or a new model coming along with new features.

So after this thread I was curious about the longevity of reusable pens so I contact Novo Nordisk about it since I use a couple of NovoPen 3 Demi's

This is their reply, or at least the pertinent part of it:

A 5 year expiry date for all durable pens was introduced in 2007, and was implemented for internal processes.

The 5 years expiry does not mean that products older than 5 years can not be used. We test all the pens for 5 years durability but we know that they can be used without problems for 10 years or more from the market response.

So guess there we have it, my take away is as follows:

• After 5 years of age start to keep an eye on them and if you get any consistently weird things happening then bin and replace
• At (or just before) 10 years, bin and replace.

If anyone wants the original PM me and I will forward it on.

/A

 

[PhoebeFlorence]

hmmm don't think mine was 10 years old, probably 8 though.
I now have a new NovoPen Echo... I know its a kids one but like the 0.5 unit dial up.

 

[AndyS]

Yes I need the 0.5 Unit doses too, kids or not it's the precision of dosage that I care about

 

[donnellysdogs]

Bournemouth Hospital meant to be one of the best for diabetes....


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