What happened to the Bank Holiday??

Spiker said:

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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PhoebeFlorence said:

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.

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Spiker said:

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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yingtong said:

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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Spiker said:

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.

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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.

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• 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.