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ALLERGIC REACTION to insulin or needles?

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Im prescribed Tri Care needles with my Humulin pens.
 
£8.65 for 100 online from Medisave buy yourself a box and see if they make any difference, then thump the table of your flippin GP and get em prescribed!

They're under the Owen Mumford banner, and they've been supplying medical kit of varying types since the 1950s and a tried and trusted brand by the NHS in general.
 
trophywench said:
£8.65 for 100 online from Medisave buy yourself a box and see if they make any difference, then thump the table of your flippin GP and get em prescribed!

They're under the Owen Mumford banner, and they've been supplying medical kit of varying types since the 1950s and a tried and trusted brand by the NHS in general.
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OMG Thanks a million for this info
I've ordered a box
Let you know how it goes
 
If you find these work for you then I suggest you get your surgery to prescribe them - you really shouldn’t need to buy your own needles!

NICE guidance recommends going for the lowest acquisition cost *as long as they are as effective* - which in your case they clearly aren’t

And £8.65 is hardly gonna bankrupt the NHS!
 
everydayupsanddowns said:
If you find these work for you then I suggest you get your surgery to prescribe them - you really shouldn’t need to buy your own needles!

NICE guidance recommends going for the lowest acquisition cost *as long as they are as effective* - which in your case they clearly aren’t

And £8.65 is hardly gonna bankrupt the NHS!
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I would have thought they most probably cost the NHS less.
 
I later noted that the Diabetes UK online shop also sells a different brand of needles, can't remember what they are now.
 
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