Diabetes rules to prescribe old-style drugs will 'put NHS back a decade'

[Northerner]

Revised guidelines on type 2 diabetes could ‘set the Health Service back a decade’ as doctors will be told to prescribe old-style cheaper drugs, experts warned yesterday.

He added: ‘Further work may be required before the final guideline is published.

These include weight gain and hypoglycemia, when blood sugar levels fall dangerously low, which threaten to push up hospital emergencies and NHS costs.

The drugs which watchdogs want family doctors to prescribe include an agent banned in France as a potential cancer risk, claim experts.

They have sent their criticisms to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice), which is consulting on its draft guidance.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...old-prescribe-old-style-drugs-NHS-decade.html

 

[Robin]

And according to the accompanying picture, these older drugs are going to have to be given by that tried and trusted route, an injection into a vein at the elbow, with the safety cap still on. good old Daily Fail!

 

[robert@fm]

The article has the longest comments list I've ever seen — many of them stupid, such as the woman who reckons that diabetes "is an adrenal gland disease" and that her husband was "cured" of it by taking vitamin supplements (presumably because he died of doing that instead of following a real treatment course)...

 

[robert@fm]

One commenter claims that there is a "Type 11" which needs to be treated, not with insulin, but with chromium supplements! 🙄

 

[HOBIE]

Somewhere to put your chips in

 

[trophywench]

Well having met him several times at various events and in meetings I'm not Dr RG's biggest fan - but that's not to do with his knowledge. Locally he is certainly regarded as quite an authority by both the medical and research fraternities - so hopefully our CCG will be guided by his words.