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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Stop restriction of blood glucose test strips to Diabetics. More details
Submitted by Patti Evans – Deadline to sign up by: 18 April 2007 – Signatures: 206
Petition update, 04 May 2007
You recently signed a petition asking the Prime Minister to "Stop restriction of blood glucose test strips to Diabetics."The Prime Minister's Office has responded to that petition and you can view it here:
http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page11621.asp
Prime Minister's Office
More details from petition creator
I understand that a government policy is about to be passed limiting Type 2 diabetics to 100 test strips per year. The decision being partly based on the expense of the strips and partly on the fact that the medical profession seem to hold the opinion that T2s can do nothing with the results of their testing. This view is far from the truth, a determined diabetic can use the results of their testing to adjust their diet to obliterate high spikes in blood sugar caused by different foods, in order to avoid longer term complications. In addition they can adjust exercise to bring down any unexpected high readings. Surely to goodness avoiding long term complications such as amputation of extremeties, kidney dialysis and heart problems will save the NHS money in the long run! Motivated diabetics on medication or even diet and exercise should be given the tools to monitor their disease and adjust their lifestyle to minimise complications. Withdrawing test strips will severely limit their ability to achieve the control so important to avoiding such complications. I am asking, therefore, that you oppose this governmental measure in the interests of the health of the diabetic community.
Current signatories
Patti Evans, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- Douglas Clarke
- Lynne Edwards
- Trevor Wilson
- Donna Williamson
- Roy Ellor
- Stephen Bowden
- David Ashcroft
- Tony Morris
- John Scragg
- David Jackson
- John Taylor
- David Roby
- Joan Goldin
- Andy Beirne
- Mollie Jackson
- Sian O'Connell
- Darren Knight
- Paul Jowett
- Nicola Moxey
- Wayne Tutton
- Fiona Moxey
- Julie Quinton
- Noel Thomas
- Alan Thomas
- Pete Ellis
- John Luby
- W D Lindseth
- Jennifer Chapman
- Colin Ward
- Gordon Ross
- Shirley Holland
- Christine Farrelly
- G Olson
- Andy Hall
- Jonathan Ellis
- Terry Gault
- jane cairns
- Demetri Dourambeis
- David Harper
- Geoffrey Porter
- Judy Taylor
- Marian Marriott
- Greg Millington
- Judy Taylor
- Alan Taylor
- Yolande Smith
- H Knaggs
- Jan Gore
- claire lee
- Damian Davis
- J E Tumath
- Annabel Rodger
- Geraldine Messenbird Smith
- Derek Hoy
- H Beuschel
- Bonnie Thorn
- liz larkin
- Paul Simmonds
- Erika Casey
- David Hearne
- Julian deMaine Evans
- Mike Lancaster
- John Williamson
- Robert A C Treen
- Hazel Sample
- Brenda Whitham
- JJames
- Emma Alloway
- Arthur Alloway
- Tricia Hearne
- judith smalley
- Tamsin Williams
- Anna Hopkins
- Wendy Isaacson
- Kenneth Stocks
- Rojer Isaacson
- Peter Ashby
- Stewart Hanson
- Lesley Lyden
- Paul Lyden
- Barbara Eunson RN RM Dip HEM
- Alan Sopp
- D Breadmore
- Yvonne Hill
- susan willoughby
- Kate Morris
- Nathalie Naylor
- Rhodri Evans
- prue willday
- k barton
- angie butler
- Saira Hassan
- janshand
- Brigitte Clark
- Cristina Ashby
- Liz James
- Ann Hansom
- emma short
- Lorraine Windsor
- Griff Griffith
- Geoffrey Young
- Graham Luckhurst
- John Gray
- May Millward
- Ian Millward
- Katie
- Christopher Pride
- Derek Brunsden
- Veronica Fowler
- pam bailie
- Richard Watkins
- Kev Maxfield
- Anne McLucas
- Roger Cawte
- Anne Taylor
- Sheila Laing
- Paul Caswell
- Heather Caswell
- Mandy Baird
- Carleen Kelemen
- Richard Hamey
- Lynda Langford-Veal
- Louise Goodwin
- Edward Goldingay
- Ann Constable
- David White
- linda zaino
- Chris martin
- Sue Jewell
- David Pinchard
- Philip Collins
- Dennis Hill
- Geoff Wiggin
- Georgia Bowden
- Sean Duffy
- Des Hickey
- Chris Donovan
- Carol Donovan
- louise Donovan
- Jennifer Mcleod
- Derek Baillie
- Jillian Daly
- JOHN H BLANSHARD
- Ashley Filmer
- Derrick Chadbourne
- Russell Wootton
- simon smith
- Chris Whittaker
- shirley wootton
- Maggie Lucas
- Pat Winrow
- Harold.E.Dean
- Mike Kelly
- Terry Wootton
- Sue Beresford
- malcolm earnshaw
- Neil Ingram
- Julia Woollard
- Andrew Taylor
- J Stott
- Lesley Harvey-Smith
- Heather Mckenzie
- Tanya Reynolds
- Lynn Wright
- Geoffrey Broomhead
- michael brown
- Linda Gedney
- Melanie Wood
- anne yeomans
- Karen Etheridge
- Peter Findley
- Peter Cook
- Ann Bath
- Lyndsey Phillpot
- Jon Browell
- Gail Buttery
- Sheila Potter
- Len Nethercoat
- Helen Pearson
- Lynda Hayes
- Judy Dicken
- Alan Ford
- peter welbourn
- kevin watkiss
- S D Jack
- anthony taylor
- andrew withers
- s brown
- NATALIE HAYLOR
- darren staddon
- mark barber
- Terry HERBERT
- Peter David Maddison
- Dave Shaw
- PETER HOWARD
- Adrian Myers
- Sian Myers
- Sigi Schenk
- Louise Colebourne
- Susan Moore
- Anthony G Connor
- Jaime Street
- Shirley Carden
- Theo C R van der Meer
- Deborah C van der Meer
