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Hello everyone! Just as the title says, I’m new to the UK and on a spousal visa. I have an appointment at my local medical centre next week, not sure what I should do or prepare for? I’m currently on an old Medtronic pump, fiasp insulin, and freestyle libre sensors. I see sensors are like...

Hello everyone Just moved to the UK from Soutb Africa and about to go see a GP and hopefully get referred to a diabetic centre. My question is, how hard is it going to be to get covered for all my current medications? I am on Fiasp Insulin 6x cartridges per month, use an older medtronic...

Estimate includes £63bn cost to people affected, £19bn cost to NHS and £15bn cost to society... Britain’s weight problem costs almost £100bn a year, analysis suggests, prompting calls for a government crackdown on unhealthy food and a drive to promote fresh ingredients...

Hello! We are researchers from Imperial College London looking for people to interview for a healthcare-related study. The purpose of the research is to understand how, as a person with diabetes and/or high blood pressure, you manage your health, and your thoughts on the increasing use of...

Foot Watch is a website that lets you take pictures of your feet at home and have them checked by a podiatrist for the risk of diabetic foot ulcers. We’re planning to test it out in the south of England next month, but before that, we want to make sure it’s as user-friendly as possible. The...

Are there any fellow Type 1 Diabetics here who have managed to get an NHS prescription for a Dexcom G6 or G7? Until recently I was living in London, where my diabetes clinic (Charing Cross) totally refused to prescribe either of these for me. I was only offered Freestyle Libre 2 or Dexcom ONE...

Hello guys, I am new here so i am still confused. I've been with T1 since i was 6 (15 years ago) and i recently started thinking about insulin pumps. I really like the Omnipod Dash system but i do not know how i can buy it, does NHS help with the cost, who can i ask for help and management of...

Hi there, Was wondering if anyone can help- I recently called my diabetes team to ask about the freestyle libre 2 ( I am on Libre 1) due to me measuring over 24 times a day due to my job, hypo symptoms starting readings lower than 6 and so on. The nurse asked why and who even approved my...

The government failed to buy crucial protective equipment to cope with a pandemic, a BBC investigation has found. There were no gowns, visors, swabs or body bags in the government's pandemic stockpile when Covid-19 reached the UK. NHS staff say they are being put at risk because of the...

Hundreds of foreign-born doctors, including refugees, have signed up to become medical support workers as part of a new scheme aimed at helping the NHS tackle the coronavirus pandemic. NHS England launched the initiative for international medical graduates and doctors after calls to fast track...

More than 170,000 people have already signed up to work for the NHS volunteer scheme amid the coronavirus pandemic. The government called for an army of 250,000 volunteers on Tuesday as the NHS struggles to cope with the rising number of Covid-19 cases. Health Secretary Matt Hancock described...

A paramedic has described being evicted from his home because his landlady was concerned that he could spread Covid-19 at the property, raising further concerns that medical staff are being stigmatised because of their contact with the virus. Joseph Hoar, a paramedic for South Western ambulance...

More than 850,000 people have signed a petition calling for front-line NHS workers to be tested for coronavirus as a matter of priority. Junior doctor Rebecca McCauley started the petition to ensure that staff who have colds but not the virus could continue working - while those with Covid-19...

The NHS will offer to put nurses up in hotels if someone they live with develops coronavirus symptoms to allow them to continue to go to work rather than self-isolate. The scheme was announced today amid concerns about the impact new, strict isolation measures will have on staffing at a time of...

The NHS is launching a new initiative to fight coronavirus misinformation, a day after the government announced its own DCMS-led counter-disinformation unit, as conspiracy theories continue to spread on social media and elsewhere. But, disinformation experts say, there remains little evidence...

Only a handful of MPs turned out to a Parliamentary debate yesterday on safe nurse staffing. The debate on nurse recruitment and retention was triggered after two petitions gathered more than 200,000 signatures from healthcare staff, patients and members of the public. It comes after Boris...

Scores of retired NHS doctors and nurses have told the Guardian that they are against returning to work to help tackle coronavirus, with many saying it would threaten their physical and mental health. The government confirmed contingency plans on Tuesday to call back to work NHS “leavers and...

Coronavirus and the disease it causes, Covid-19, have dominated the headlines. Yet the range of expectations and predictions of its impacts have been so wide as to make clear understanding almost impossible. This is perhaps inevitable when we grapple with a fast-moving and previously unknown...

It was September 2019 when Ludmila Zalewska found herself being taken to A&E at Royal Stoke University Hospital. Suffering with stomach pain, the 68-year-old had tried to take a warm bath in lieu of going to hospital, but when the pain had not subsided after five hours, she called a friend – a...

A senior NHS nurse was fired after warning the increased workload on her pressured staff had contributed to a patient’s death. Linda Fairhall, 60, had an unblemished record of almost 40 years’ service when she turned whistleblower at North Tees and Hartlepool NHS trust. After an employment...