I was hoping that this update would include a discussion of the new national Libre policy, which I contributed to. However, I should have known that the wheels of central NHS bureaucracy move glacially slowly and a month after the final draft was submitted for approval, the final version has still not been published. I am hoping that the final version of the policy hasn't been appreciably watered-down as the version that was submitted was well thought-out and fair. DVLA Update At 22:30 on Valentines Day, without fanfare, the DVLA quietly released the new guidelines for those who use insulin and drive (fortunately, I had an alert for all DVLA document releases, so had an early notification of the release). As mentioned previously in this blog, the law was changed over a year ago to allow for this change, but it's taken a long time for the new guidelines to be released. This was in part because of a challenge from a pharma company who suggested this was unfair (it isn
T1 Diabetic ramblings, with a special interest in the Abbott Freestyle Libre Glucose Monitor...and perhaps some totally unrelated musical thoughts.