T2 New Drug Success

[Maurice Power]

Good day

I am Maurice Power and was hit with T2 around 2000. I am managing to hold it but feet a problem. I just read about a new drug that has a 72% success rate with T2. It also helps the waistline and is being looked at further for heart.It has successfully had some 600 odd people
trial it with 72% success . The next thing I read is that it will take the NHS 3 years to agree it.
That does not sound reasonable and if the 72% of the known 2.5 million with diabetes beat it then a great weightis lifted off the NHS and expense. So I decided to have a go at a Petition to Parliament.
I’ve made a petition – will you sign it?
Click this link to sign the petition:Or paste and sign as I am not sure it will click here.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/203165/sponsors/new?token=K1sCipwu3dLjB5Rmu3hV
My petition:
It takes the NHS 3 years to get drug 72% effective in curing T2 Diabetes -WHY
The number of people diagnosed with diabetes in the UK has increased by more than 150,000 to 2.8 million in the past year, warns Diabetes UK today.Around nine in ten people with diabetes (2.5 million) have Type 2 diabetes, which is strongly linked to being overweight and is spiralling NHS costs .
Much information online and with NHS. And Diabetes UK
You may have to enter the link as I am not sure it will work like this. Please pass it on to anyone with diabetes. Even 10% of 2.5 million must surely give a wake up call to Parliament.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Welcome to the forum Maurice. The petition link does not give any details until more people have signed.

Personally I have slightly mixed feelings about petitions for this sort of thing. They can certainly help to raise the profile of new drugs and treatment, but I suspect that in the end parliament will defer to the existing processes for reviewing clinical evidence around drug efficacy and costs (which can be frustratingly slow as you point out).

Well done for taking the initiative though. As you say there are so many people diagnosed with diabetes now (actually I thought it was more like 4 million than 2.5!) any effective new treatments are very welcome, and hopefully this one can be fast-tracked if the trial data is as positive as you say - certainly wouldn't make sense to delay it IMO!

You've not named the drug, so I'm not sure if it is one that members here are already aware of.

 

[Maurice Power]

Dear Moderator

Thank you for your reply and welcome. I do not quite understand your note re link. I have asked several friends to sign (5 needed)
so it should be running. will check. I hear what you say but when I read that semaglutide had a 72% success rate but the NHS were taking 3 years to approve to use an expression "I got the hellin". I wanted to ask the Minister why but was blocked from him by the NHS. So I decided on a petition. I agree that Parliament ,if it is raised may defer as you say, but maybe it might kickstart the NHS
into quicker action.I see that it is likely to be approved just now in the US.
I am 76 and waiting 3 years might see me taking it 6 foot under. hah hah But there are many young people who might regain their lives with it and so I am giving it a shot.

 

[Copepod]

Welcome to the forum, Maurice. As a matter of principle, I never sign a petition without doing some research myself. As you haven't stated the name of the drug, research is impossible. Perhaps you intended to link to a page giving information about your petition rather than to the signing page?
I agree with @everydayupsanddowns - clinical approval methods may be slow and frustrating, but are fair.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Dear Moderator

Thank you for your reply and welcome. I do not quite understand your note re link. I have asked several friends to sign (5 needed)

It may be that they have not signed yet? This page https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/203165/ suggests the 5 signature limit has not yet been reached?

Thanks for the clarification that the petition concerns semaglutide - that will help people look into it 🙂

 

[Maurice Power]

Hi Everyupsanddown and Copepod

I apologise as I expected the people I had asked to have done the 5 required. .
They were all old colleagues or family and maybe old like me take time. Anyway have lit the fires and hopefully will see some
.effort. Copepod- I have named the drug in my last email . Im afraidI thought most people would be aware of it.. Anyway
if its as good as they reckon the sooner the better.

All the best

M

 

[Copepod]

Thanks for stating the name of the drug.