So the news that for the first time, a fingerprick-free testing device – the Freestyle Libre monitoring system – is to be made available on the NHS Drugs Tariff from November 2017 has been met with excitement. Until now, people have either had to pay for it privately (at a cost of about £58 for the reader and 2 months of sensors costing about £114) or apply for funding on an ‘exceptional case’ basis, called an Individual Funding Request. But this doesn’t mean an end to fingerprick testing for everyone, and there could be trying times ahead for patients trying to access it.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original article at https://patient.info/news-and-features/continuous-glucose-monitoring-in-type-1-diabetes