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Hi, I was diagnosed with T1D just over a year ago and have been on MDI since. I'm interested in starting pump therapy but am yet to mention this to my diabetes team (I have a routine appointment in just under a month, I'll mention it then). My A1c is 5.3% and so is not going to get any lower...

Hi All I'm due for a chat with my DSN at my request next week re a new pump as medtronic tell I'm due a replacement. medtronic described the 670g which sounds interesting, but back when I started the 640g a few years ago sensors had to be paid for by the patient and the system wasn't closed...

A few discussions came up in the 'Ask Diabetes UK' thread about how Diabetes UK goes about choosing which research programmes to fund. So, when Anna Morris - Head of Research Funding posted a blog post, in response to some excellent questions raised by on of our regular bloggers, Helen May - I...

The figures are eye-watering. Last week it emerged NHS trusts in England were overspent by £2.2bn at the three-quarter mark of this financial year. By the end of March that figure could rise to close to £3bn. To put that into context, that's more than the entire unemployment benefits bill. It...

Jeremy Hunt’s talks of patient safety - but his NHS cash 'solutions' risk repeating the mistakes of Mid-Staffordshire. The systematic and deliberate cash starvation of the NHS by Tory-led governments since 2010 has opened up an increasingly visible crisis, now leading to panic among...

The NHS is one of our most cherished institutions. The Commonwealth Fund, a private American foundation that supports independent research on health, judged it to be overall the best, and easily the best value for money, of any national system of healthcare. Yet today it faces an existential...

NHS trusts in England are on course to be £2.3bn in the red by the end of the financial year, according to a leading health think tank. Based on data from about one in three trusts, the King's Fund said the financial position was getting worse and performance was deteriorating. It said this...

Income tax will have to increase by at least 3p in the pound to deal with the massive pressures on NHS funding and to guarantee future healthcare, the former head of the civil service Lord Kerslake has said. In a stark assessment of NHS finances, Kerslake said that big questions needed to be...

One of the country’s biggest NHS trusts has urged staff to ration paper and stationery, to only use second class stamps and has asked heads of nursing put themselves down for ward shifts, as the NHS’s cash crisis plumbs new depths this winter. In a letter to staff, seen by The Independent...