Fears allayed over proposed diabetes equipment changes

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Fears allayed over proposed diabetes equipment changes

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Jojoa Burling
Continuous glucose monitor and insulin pump
Pharmac is proposing to stop funding one insulin pump but wants to fund two others, as well as continuous glucose monitoring systems [Image credit: iStock]
The most important thing is they [CGM devices] can be available for everyone, not just those who can afford them Thousands of people have signed , Rosemary_Hall_CRLukePilkinton-ChingUniversityofOtagoWellington, Endocrinologist Rosemary Hall says the two proposed insulin pumps and the one that Pharmac is proposing to delist use different algorithms but are all