Continuous glucose monitoring for adults and children with diabetes: summary of updated NICE guidance

What you need to knowThe guideline update recommends real-time continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) and intermittently scanned CGM to a broader group of people than in previous recommendations, offering all people with type 1 diabetes access to this technologyNew recommendations for intermittently scanned CGM have been made aimed at a defined group of adults with type 2 diabetes who use insulin to manage their diabetes, particularly those who have recurrent or severe hypoglycaemia, impaired hypoglycaemia awareness, or a condition or disability that means they cannot self monitor their blood glucose levels and require input from carersThe new guidance from NICE is likely to challenge short term funding from providers for glucose sensors, but cost effectiveness analyses within the guidance suggest that there are long term benefits to be gained from sensor use for patients with diabetesUntil this year, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) had recommended technology for…
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