What its position is on giving people with type 1 diabetes free access to blood glucose monitoring technology such as the Abbott Freestyle …

Answered Asked by Alexander Burnett Con Lodged 13 Oct 2016

The question

To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on giving people with type 1 diabetes free access to blood glucose monitoring technology such as the Abbott Freestyle Libre.

The answer

Answered by Shona Robison on 8 Nov 2016 · 26 days after it was lodged, on time

We expect clinicians to follow appropriate national clinical guidelines and standards to ensure that continuous blood glucose monitoring technology is accessible to those who would clinically benefit from it.
Work is currently on-going to develop a national approach for the use of Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) devices in Scotland, as we recognise the speed of development of this technology.

In the Official Report

1 contribution mention S5W-03762

24 Nov 2016

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I am just looking at the answer to a written question from the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport. She said: “Work is currently on-going to develop a national approach for the use of Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) devices in Scotl…