Is this right?(Pharmacy related)
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Wondered if there are any pharmacists in who can advise?
Daughter managed to use the last of her Diabetes testing strips(Type 1 insulin dependent & poorly controlled) thanks to a combination of several hypos today & dropping some when out! Normally I would have e mailed the GP for more but had to dash down to the only open chemist tonight,in Ada, who kindly charged me £15.58 for a tub of just 10 strips!!!
There was no barcode so the dispenser checked a book but is this right? (And if not how do I get my cash back
) Seems one hell of a lot to me, especially as my normal chemist just did 1 on prescription previously. If so,no wonder the NHS is fooked if they have to pay £1.50 a strip
Daughter managed to use the last of her Diabetes testing strips(Type 1 insulin dependent & poorly controlled) thanks to a combination of several hypos today & dropping some when out! Normally I would have e mailed the GP for more but had to dash down to the only open chemist tonight,in Ada, who kindly charged me £15.58 for a tub of just 10 strips!!!
There was no barcode so the dispenser checked a book but is this right? (And if not how do I get my cash back
) Seems one hell of a lot to me, especially as my normal chemist just did 1 on prescription previously. If so,no wonder the NHS is fooked if they have to pay £1.50 a strip You will have paid the retail price, which is a lot more than the NHS will pay. Try getting a private prescription for drugs if you want a surprise!
Price depends on your testing device, but as a rough guide the NHS price for 50 strips for an Accu-Chek Active is £9.95
If you post up what actual device you're using I can tell you the price - most of them are a bit dearer than that.
You're right though that diabetes costs a fortune to treat:
http://www.diabetes.co.uk/cost-of-diabetes.html
10% of the NHS budget, £25k a minute. By far the biggest cost is in treating the complications however, such as those exacerbated by the poor control you describe. Has she been for a chat with her diabetes consultant lately?
Price depends on your testing device, but as a rough guide the NHS price for 50 strips for an Accu-Chek Active is £9.95
If you post up what actual device you're using I can tell you the price - most of them are a bit dearer than that.
You're right though that diabetes costs a fortune to treat:
http://www.diabetes.co.uk/cost-of-diabetes.html
10% of the NHS budget, £25k a minute. By far the biggest cost is in treating the complications however, such as those exacerbated by the poor control you describe. Has she been for a chat with her diabetes consultant lately?
Edited by N Dentressangle on Sunday 15th February 18:41
It is teh Aviva Accu Check.I can actually get a testing machine,pricker & 10 strips for a tenner at Asda but they had none. Guess I will have to suck it up
Yes,she has seen her consultant,& is going back this week in fact,she has only had it for a few months,we didnt find out till she was blue lighted in with a full on DKA coma!
Yes,she has seen her consultant,& is going back this week in fact,she has only had it for a few months,we didnt find out till she was blue lighted in with a full on DKA coma!
They're a little bit dearer - £15.72 net price for a 50-strip pack.
Diabetes is a rotten disease, no two people are the same, and it'll take a while for your daughter to get things under control and work out how she lives with it, so I'd have plenty of sympathy for her. Hopefully between her consultant, the diabetes nurses and your GP she can get things sorted out.
Diabetes is a rotten disease, no two people are the same, and it'll take a while for your daughter to get things under control and work out how she lives with it, so I'd have plenty of sympathy for her. Hopefully between her consultant, the diabetes nurses and your GP she can get things sorted out.
kowalski655 said:
Cheers ND,we are slowly getting there, but not being helped by her being a typical stroppy teenager
It's especially rough for teenagers - diabetes really screws up most of the things we like doing when we're that age, and doesn't fit in with anything but a very regular, regulated lifestyle.Our local trust runs a young adult clinic for patients with diabetes who are too old for paediatric services, so hopefully she's under the care of something similar if she's at that age yet. All the best with it - I think it usually takes up to a couple of years following a Type 1 diagnosis for people to really get their head around it, so you'll need to be a patient dad!
kowalski655 said:
Tell me about it!!!
She is still under the RHSC in Edinburgh but will hopefully have accepted it by the time she moves up to the next clinic
assuming I haven't strangled her first
I have lived when type Two Diabetes for 24 years. It is certainly best if your daughter can gain good control particularly with Type One. Long term downsides of poor control are not good. She is still under the RHSC in Edinburgh but will hopefully have accepted it by the time she moves up to the next clinic
assuming I haven't strangled her first
I appreciate this is not an easy matter to address, having two daughters myself. Best of luck to you. As others suggest without the NHS Diabetes would be crippling financially as well as difficult physically.
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