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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Ministers have ordered an investigation into why PCTs are advising GPs to ration glucose testing strips for patients with type 1 diabetes.
Health minister Anna Soubry told the House of Commons last week that she was concerned to hear claims from Diabetes UK that people with type 1 diabetes were being given only limited numbers of glucose testing strips by their GPs.
She said: ?Frankly, this is bonkers; people with diabetes who use strips need to use them and often need to use many in a day.
?I am not happy if there is any form of rationing of those strips. I have already met officers in the Department and inquiries are being made of primary care trusts, and beyond,? she said.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/clinica...g-of-diabetes-testing-strips/20001583.article
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Health minister Anna Soubry told the House of Commons last week that she was concerned to hear claims from Diabetes UK that people with type 1 diabetes were being given only limited numbers of glucose testing strips by their GPs.
She said: ?Frankly, this is bonkers; people with diabetes who use strips need to use them and often need to use many in a day.
?I am not happy if there is any form of rationing of those strips. I have already met officers in the Department and inquiries are being made of primary care trusts, and beyond,? she said.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/clinica...g-of-diabetes-testing-strips/20001583.article
Registration may be required.