CareSens Dual Blood Glucose and Ketone Testing Monitor

Product Information

If you're eligible for a funded meter, and don't already have one of the funded Caresens meters, you can get a new meter from your community pharmacy before 1 August 2018. From 1 August 2018 you will have to see your general practitioner to change meters.

You will not need to change the meter you use but if you have Type 1 diabetes you can change to a CareSens Dual meter if you want. From 1 August 2018, a brand switch fee will no longer be paid for changing people to a funded CareSens meter.

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Up to 31 July 2018, your prescriptions can be filled as usual: the Special Authority brand of test strips will be dispensed. Meal markers can be attached to tests to show which tests were pre-meal tests and which were post-meal tests. The CareSens N blood glucose monitor is designed to be easy to use; requiring only a small sample of blood, no coding required for the test strips and an easy to read display screen. Sole supply arrangement for CareSens brand products finished 30 June 2022. This does not affect the funding for meters and consumables. Meters and consumables remain funded. Funded diabetes meters and test strips The CareSens N Blood Glucose Monitor offers easy and accurate testing and there’s no coding required.

The CareSens Dual is an innovative combined blood glucose and ketone meter. Providing rapid test results for both blood glucose and ketone levels, it features a range of benefits, including: If a person has type 1 diabetes and is using a CareSens N or CareSens N POP meter they do not have to change their meter but can change to a funded CareSens Dual meter if they want. They don't have to hand in their old meter. CareSens N Premier with bluetooth functionality and CareSens N Blood Glucose test strips – not previously fundedYes you do. The Special Authority is not “lifetime”, but was set up so that the doctors or nurses who prescribed the test strips for you didn't have to keep renewing the applications for you to access a Special Authority brand of test strips. CareSens N, CareSens N POP, CareSens N Premier and CareSens Dual meters and their test strips will be Sole Supply from 1 August 2018.