It looks like this week NICE will approve CGM (continuous glucose monitors) for addition to Health Authorities formularies so can be put on individuals repeat prescription in a more general manner.
Currently they have only been available for qualifying children who need the support of these specific devices.
That means that closed loop systems are within reach ok UK diabetics - for some time Medtronic have been trialing closed loop in some LHAs (local health authorities), recently some other pump manufacturers have announced the same capabilities tied to their own CGM censors.
Taking into account the time it takes for LHAs to gain funding and approve products for prescription, and the current funding crisis caused by Covid, it may be some time before we see those products available in Nottingham (for example) and it may be triaged on a case by case basis until the LHAs can see benefit from cost savings and life quality to those taking up the opportunity for CGM and the Closed looping.
I have a pump renewal coming up in May 2022 - I'll take advice from the Derby Diabetes specialists to see what its likely to happen, however I'm currently planning on using my Libre2s linked to xDrip and Nightscout, a new DANA RS pump (open API) and AndroidAPS to perform the looping. That should buy me 4 years for it all to settle down, and I can review what's happened next time when its all sorted out.
Interestingly there is a new 'Libre 3' device that seems to be CGM rather than flash - more on that when I work out what that might mean
Its not easy being a Diabetic - you need one foot in the medical camp (I have spent most of my life being 'an organ' - in this case a pancreas) and one foot in the technology camp - I have no idea how this will work out when I hit 70 and still need to be switched on to compiling Android apps and whatever the new version of Bluetooth protocol stack is doing.....
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