Petition · past parliament
Make Freestyle libre sensors and receiver available on the NHS for T1 Diabetics.
Closed
602 signatures
What the petition asks
I have a Type 1 Diabetic Daughter (nine years old) and T1D since she was 2 years old. Thats 7 years of up to 10 finger pricks a day to test blood glucose. To do this we have test strips and lancets via prescription. This money could fund a freestyle libre instead!
Freestyle libre reads the blood sugars via a sensor on the back of the arm and then it is scanned by the reader for blood glucose results.
We have only been on this 2 weeks and the change in my Daughters levels is amazing!
Plus she is taking more control of her own Diabetes because she no longer has the discomfort several times a day of pricking her fingers for blood.
I believe that these should be available on the NHS as they cost the same as what it does for lancets and test strips etc ...
We have only been on this 2 weeks and the change in my Daughters levels is amazing!
Plus she is taking more control of her own Diabetes because she no longer has the discomfort several times a day of pricking her fingers for blood.
I believe that these should be available on the NHS as they cost the same as what it does for lancets and test strips etc ...
Timeline
| 13 Mar 2017 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 2 May 2017 | Closed to new signatures |
Key facts
Signatures
602
Status
Closed
Opened
13 Mar 2017
Closed
2 May 2017
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