These strips appear to be a lot cheaper that Accu-check Aviva test strips. Has anyone on here used them? Price quoted online was ?17.03. plus postage which came to approximately ?21. The Accu-chek ones cost me ?30 last week. Can Betachek be obtained without prescription?
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Betachek G5 test strips
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Robster65
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Hi Jill.
You shouldn't need to pay ?30 for any test strips ! 😱
If you google around, you can normally find Aviva strips around the ?20-?25 mark from certain online shops and you can often get them below ?15 on ebay, if you're conscience allows.
Rob
You shouldn't need to pay ?30 for any test strips ! 😱
If you google around, you can normally find Aviva strips around the ?20-?25 mark from certain online shops and you can often get them below ?15 on ebay, if you're conscience allows.
Rob
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Vicsetter reported on a much cheaper alternative here:
http://www.diabetessupport.co.uk/boards/showthread.php?t=18200
http://www.diabetessupport.co.uk/boards/showthread.php?t=18200
trophywench
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Very old technology - colour matching, unless you buy their meter.
I personally have never heard of either them or their UK distributor, Ambe Medical who have apparently been in business since 1999. Although they say they are not traditional wholesalers they do supply direct to eg hospitals, pharmacies. So presumably that's why their name ism't familiar? Perhaps they have sole marketing rights on certain products, I really don't know!
Incidentally, the link to UK Govt Test Results on Betacheks own website, takes you to a report from the Wolfson Unit, housed within the QE Hospital/Birmingham University campus, so far so good. BUT it only refers to testing some strips in a Roche Reflolux meter, which was one of the old-fashioned "blood on, wait X seconds, wipe blood off, stick in the meter, get your result" type devices which they had used to use in hopsitals; I never had one of them as I couldn't afford one. The next generation Roche meter was of the current type, ie strip in hole, apply blood, get result - the only difference being you needed a fair globule of blood, it took a lot longer and the meter itself was about the size of a paperback book!
Why anyone would want to use such an old-fashioned bit of kit in 2002 (which appears to be the date of the Wolfson's tests) - is beyond me!
I am not knocking their current products at all so please don't get me wrong.
These are just my observations having - fairly quickly - perused Google!
I personally have never heard of either them or their UK distributor, Ambe Medical who have apparently been in business since 1999. Although they say they are not traditional wholesalers they do supply direct to eg hospitals, pharmacies. So presumably that's why their name ism't familiar? Perhaps they have sole marketing rights on certain products, I really don't know!
Incidentally, the link to UK Govt Test Results on Betacheks own website, takes you to a report from the Wolfson Unit, housed within the QE Hospital/Birmingham University campus, so far so good. BUT it only refers to testing some strips in a Roche Reflolux meter, which was one of the old-fashioned "blood on, wait X seconds, wipe blood off, stick in the meter, get your result" type devices which they had used to use in hopsitals; I never had one of them as I couldn't afford one. The next generation Roche meter was of the current type, ie strip in hole, apply blood, get result - the only difference being you needed a fair globule of blood, it took a lot longer and the meter itself was about the size of a paperback book!
Why anyone would want to use such an old-fashioned bit of kit in 2002 (which appears to be the date of the Wolfson's tests) - is beyond me!
I am not knocking their current products at all so please don't get me wrong.
These are just my observations having - fairly quickly - perused Google!
Copepod
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Jill - virtually all blood glucose meters and test strips can be obtained without prescription - they are not P (Prescription only) or POM (Pharmacy Only Medicine) classified in UK.
However, as others have said, there are sources where you can buy 50 strips (usual pack size) for around ?20.
However, as others have said, there are sources where you can buy 50 strips (usual pack size) for around ?20.
Apologies for late response - have been offline for a while. Many thanks all for the information. ebay sounds good but I'm a little wary as they may not have been stored correctly etc. and so could be unreliable. I shall check the link Northener. Thanks again.
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