#Freestyle libre flash glucose monitoring device full
The full guidance was published on 7 March 2019. Recognising this unacceptable variation, the NHS Long Term Plan announced that, “patients with type 1 diabetes would benefit from life changing flash glucose monitors from April 2019”. However there is huge variation in prescribing – in some areas over 20% of their population of people with T1 diabetes have been prescribed Libre, in other areas it is 0%. The Libre system has been available to buy in England since 2014 and on NHS drug tariff since November 2017. That would also be 112 uncomfortable finger pricks. As a comparison, test strips for blood glucose monitoring cost between £12.21 and £37.03 if checking levels eight times a day over the same period (depending on device used). This empowers the individual person with diabetes, providing a much clearer picture of their glucose levels through the day and overnight compared to traditional ‘snap shot’ finger prick blood glucose testing, informing the person’s decision about any action needed.Įach sensor costs £32.47. The sensor is scanned with a reader providing current glucose reading, a trace for the previous eight hours, and importantly trend direction arrows depicting whether glucose levels are going up, down or stable.
A sensor is placed on the upper arm for 14 days, measuring interstitial glucose. Access to these innovations has caused debate, not least due to their cost.įlash Glucose Monitoring (currently in the UK Freestyle Libre) is a new way of monitoring glucose levels. People with type 1 diabetes require insulin treatment however over the last few years the rapid rise in medical technology and innovation has given us different methods for delivering insulin and monitoring blood glucose levels. This is something that CCGs now need to know about thanks to new mandatory criteria from NHS England. If you don’t work in the diabetes field, or know someone with type 1 diabetes, you may not have heard of Flash Glucose Monitoring or Libre.
0 kommentar(er)
