Access to Insulin Pump Therapy – Public Petitions Committee, 24 January 2012

14/03/2012

I agree with what has just been said. I hate the phrase “postcode lottery”—I think that you used the word “passport” just now, convener—but, when the petitioners spoke to us, I was shocked by the idea that the availability of insulin pumps is so variable. That just seemed wrong.

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Access to Insulin Pump Therapy – Public Petitions Committee, 01 November 2011

14/03/2012

 I do not like the phrase “postcode lottery”, because it gives postcodes and lotteries a bad name. I do not know what the alternative is; it seems to be part of the culture now.

I would like to pursue what our visitors have discussed and give them a little more opportunity. Clearly there i…

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