First reply:
In relation to Freestyle Libre, please find below a response to the points raised in your letter dated 18th March 2019:
Your plans for meeting the NHS England Libre policy
From the 1st April Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group has agreed to make Freestyle Libre available to all patients who meet the NHS England criteria. Patients will be assessed against the criteria at their next routine diabetes appointment in either secondary care or a diabetes consultant led community clinic. Once the patient has been trained on the device, transfer of prescribing can be passed to primary care. Continued review of patients will be at 6 months then annually by the initiating clinician.
How the Libre prescribing process will be handled? Will it be Red, Amber or Green listed?
Prescribing of Freestyle Libre will be recommended as Amber – Specialist Initiation with continued prescribing in Primary Care.
Of note, prior to April 2019, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group did support use of Freestyle Libre for defined patient groups, as agreed with local diabetologists. All prescribing of the sensors was undertaken in secondary care or the diabetes consultant led community clinic and not in Primary Care.
Thank you for your email. We have passed it onto a senior clinical pharmacist who will review the request and will take the required action to address it. The senior clinical pharmacist will feedback to you the outcome of their investigation.
If your request is clinically urgent advice can be accessed by phoning 01480 387125. Service Available: Monday to Friday from 0900 to 1600. Outside of these times you can contact the hospital’s pharmacy service if you have medicines information queries relating to patients cared for in hospital.
Thank you for using this service.
Medicines Optimisation Team
Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group
FINAL RESPONSE
In relation to Freestyle Libre, please find below a response to the points raised in your letter dated 18th March 2019:
Your plans for meeting the NHS England Libre policy
From the 1st April Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group has agreed to make Freestyle Libre available to all patients who meet the NHS England criteria. Patients will be assessed against the criteria at their next routine diabetes appointment in either secondary care or a diabetes consultant led community clinic. Once the patient has been trained on the device, transfer of prescribing can be passed to primary care. Continued review of patients will be at 6 months then annually by the initiating clinician.
How the Libre prescribing process will be handled? Will it be Red, Amber or Green listed?
Prescribing of Freestyle Libre will be recommended as Amber – Specialist Initiation with continued prescribing in Primary Care.
Of note, prior to April 2019, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group did support use of Freestyle Libre for defined patient groups, as agreed with local diabetologists. All prescribing of the sensors was undertaken in secondary care or the diabetes consultant led community clinic and not in Primary Care.
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