Well, the 1st of July has rolled around and indeed we now have subsidised access to CGM for all people with T1 diabetes who are registered with NDSS! Actually we cannot yet access product yet. We can now apply for access, which will start on the 15th of July. Or is it the 11th? (see …
This is a follow-up to last month’s “CGM Subsidy update: what DO we know?” post. It’s been almost a month, and we’re getting close to that “July 1st” date. So time for a refresh: On the 10th of June NDSS essentially said that “things are in the works”. But there have been crickets since. The …
Last week I wrote about the announced expansion to the NDSS CGM Subsidy. If you haven’t read that article yet, please do before continuing. There’s still some time to go before we find out for sure what will happen, but some things are getting clearer. I’m not sure the Health Department and NDSS necessarily know …
As of today, the Libre 2 FGM/CGM system is finally available in Australia! I reported about the Libre 2 in 2018, and then in March this year we were told it was approved for Australia and would be available “in the coming months”. I guess it only took four months. To summarise what we know …
Back in 2018 I wrote an article about the new Libre 2. Finally (as of yesterday) Abbott has got the Libre 2 approved with the TGA for use in Australia. All we know about the rollout and availability of the product is a statement by Abbott that it will be made available “over the coming …
As I’ve written before, my own glycaemia has been described by some doctors as “approaching normoglycaemia”, and my last lab HbA1c result came in at 33 mmol/mol (5.2%). I’m not going to pretend that I’m “normal” (and I’m not the example in this article) but personally I have been feeling that my BG profile has …