People on insulin, is your GP in charge of your care?

[MeanMom]

GP has had nothing to do with K's Diabeties other than sticking a testing strip in a pot of her wee after her optician told him to do so😡 Before that said her problems due to her age - so I am very glad we go to clinic at hospital - unlike Monica/Carol there does not seem to be a different clinic for different ages.
We get repeat script via Docs but it is D clinic who says what goes on it (including her thyroid meds now) - doc has never queried it(yet)

But as many have said - it is really a family affair when it comes to managing K's diabetes.

 

[shiv]

I'm under the local hospital's diabetes team. I'm yet to have my first appointment with the new consultant (had to reschedule from March to May, boo!).

My GP does nothing but prescribe my repeat prescription for me. Saying that, they have never questioned me on what I use, or when I've asked for extra things.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

There is a bit of a push to get some of the annual checks done in GP surgeries again I think. (I went thought this once before and then got referred back to hospital clinic when I started asking pointy questions about different insulins).

I don't mind getting feet/ weight /BP checks/bloods etc done at GP surgery (I think here is a financial incentive for them to do some things) as long as the care is 'joined up' and everyone is talking to each other. It's the duplication of appointments that I resist.

 

[imtrying]

There is a bit of a push to get some of the annual checks done in GP surgeries again I think. (I went thought this once before and then got referred back to hospital clinic when I started asking pointy questions about different insulins).

Mike, can you give me some questions ready for me to take to my doctor?? pretty please?!

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Haha! I was just not happy with what I was on and knew what I wanted! The mere mention of a request to change insulins was enough for them to refer me back to the hosp!

 

[grainger]

I'm seen by diabetes ward at a hospital. DSN is amazing and i'm really happy with the care I get from her, my consultant and dietician. My GP are in control of my prescriptions (that's how i see it anyway)... that's less fun... I've had to call and argue why I need more than 50 test strips at once, and also why it would be beneficial to have more needles! Apart from that they seem nice but I don't ever deal with them.
To be honest I feel safer/more cared for knowing I'm being looked after by a specialist team, but I'm not sure what'll happen after a few years of being diagnosed.. maybe then I get referred to GP?

 

[Freddie99]

The main reason that there is a push to get people checked at their GPs is the fact that the GP receives an extra bit of cash to their budget for doing this. It's the incentive. I don't trust my GP with anything more than signing my repeat prescription. Essentially they have no input in my care and I am cared for in terms of diabetes by the local team who seem quite decent.