Awful article in Scottish Daily Mail

[donnarob]

and it makes you wonder, why we keep our diagnosis of diabetes to ourselves😡

When I told my mum I had it, she just scoffed and said it was so common heaps of people have it, then she offered me a pudding!!! People need to be educated and made to realise that it is a metabolilc disorder. One thing it has done for me, is to stop and think twice about everything I eat. Not so sure the non diabetics would be doing that!

Donna 😉

 

[trophywench]

I'm a 100%, at least, with AndyK on this one.

Let's invite him to the one in Brum .......

 

[Alba37]

Better article today as a way of appology for the last 'diabetes' one. Still not 100% but a good improvement on the first!

There is a link to pages 36 and 37 (the article) on pdf from here, It features a CWD Mum Anj and her family.

Aileen

 

[Twitchy]

"south of the border, pumps are routinely issued to patients"... can't say that was my experience at all! Not sure where they got that info... that said, it does sound like the situation 'up north' is dire. Never did have a reply to my email to the original muppet, as it happens...!

 

[Alba37]

"south of the border, pumps are routinely issued to patients"... can't say that was my experience at all! Not sure where they got that info... that said, it does sound like the situation 'up north' is dire. Never did have a reply to my email to the original muppet, as it happens...!

I know people can still struggle to get a pump in England, but Patient Choice, and NICE TA's being mandatory it gives you more to fight with. Our SIGN guidelines are not tightly worded and they are only guidelines and open to interpretation from the consultant. We don't have Patient Choice, we have to put up with our local clinic, very few people win the fight for a referral to a different area. If you are happy to travel you should be able to get a pump somewhere in England. In reality the whole of the UK has a long way to go to bring us up to where we should be with pumps and CGM

I know the article still has some inaccuracies, but it's better than the last one at least! I never got a reply either to my original complaint, but others did...