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Do you think they actually asked ordinary people about CGMs, and how they’ve transformed many lives?

And why no comment about how the prescription of modern tech varies across England. Why? I thought this was a National Health Service.
 
Well said Mikey, i’ve Always said it feels like a local health service not a national one.
There should be no postcode lottery as there sadly is.
Then again at least we all get our insulin unlike the not as great as you think u.s.a.
 
Have a look at the diet advice on the diabetes section of the revised website. It was last updated in 2016 and is dire. Base your meals around starchy carbs etc. Do PHE not realise that starch is the white powdery inside of a grain of wheat and the worst possible form of a carb other than glucose itself. I've complained and await a response.
 
mikeyB said:
Do you think they actually asked ordinary people about CGMs, and how they’ve transformed many lives?

And why no comment about how the prescription of modern tech varies across England. Why? I thought this was a National Health Service.
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They probably asked. Overall it seemed fine to me as a concise summary of reality. Agreed there should be discussion about how the NHS decides who gets what, when, but I doubt this would be the right place to put it; it just wouldn't fit, I think.

Looks like they're a bit confused about the Libre. Specifically the 8 hours thing, which is just not something that users of it will see: when my DSN plugged the reader into his PC, we were looking at profiles over days. 8 hours is irrelevant (unless, as happens rarely, I don't scan for more than 8 hours).
 
Thanks Northener. I’ve just read the link to the T2 section. Some of it is fine but dietary wise in my opinion is poor, I mean in one section it said , you may have to make changes to your diet and exersize, imo their is no may about the diet bit, I don’t include exersize in this as some people are unable to do much.

I feel sorry for newbies to T2 who join the main site who read that dietary advise, if I hadn’t been taught on my dx back in the 90s that certain carbs needed to be vastly reduced and I needed to limit fruit , in fact the only fruit I was allowed to eat as much as I liked of was Redcurrants uggg , but for the diabetes clinic at St George’s hospital I would have been in a much worse state than I am now !

All I can say is thank god for this forum.
 
Thank you Northerner. I’m sure many will find the information on these sites useful.
 
Bruce Stephens said:
Agreed there should be discussion about how the NHS decides who gets what, when, but I doubt this would be the right place to put it; it just wouldn't fit, I think.
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As you say, not the right place thanks to the government's reorganisation which placed the actual decisions in the hands of local CCGs. The NHS says you can prescribe the Libre, but the CCG may decide not to so it can fund something else. It's a way that central government are able to pass the buck on decision-making (and therefore who the public will complain to) to small pockets around the country, so some people will lose out on some things, others on other things. Similar to what has happened to local government - pass the decisions on under the guise of 'devolving power', but then failing to fund things properly :( Just my own personal take on things.
 
Northerner said:
As you say, not the right place thanks to the government's reorganisation which placed the actual decisions in the hands of local CCGs. The NHS says you can prescribe the Libre, but the CCG may decide not to so it can fund something else. It's a way that central government are able to pass the buck on decision-making (and therefore who the public will complain to) to small pockets around the country, so some people will lose out on some things, others on other things. Similar to what has happened to local government - pass the decisions on under the guise of 'devolving power', but then failing to fund things properly :( Just my own personal take on things.
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That’s my take on it too
 
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