Hi Adrian
> In message <[log in to unmask]>,
> [log in to unmask] writes
> >Apart from TENS machines and blood glucose meters,
> >what items of equipment of that sort of size and cost do list members
> know
> >of in use by their patients, and feel to be useful medically, but not
> >usually simply provideable by the NHS?
>
> Enuresis alarms.
>
> Adrain Elliot-Smith
> Billingham
> Teesside
>
>
Our HV's have loads of enuresis alarms. However our district nurses have to charge UKP10 for providing an item of equipment, be it a commode or a urinal or anything.
I
think this is diabolical - old ladies having to pay for incontinence aids etc on a state pension.
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