Problems with insulin supply for diabetics post-Brexit?

[sasguru]

This is being hotly discussed at work today - unusually because usually nobody gives a tulip about Brexit on the mainland. But it's obviously pharma-sector related hence the interest.

https://www.pharmaceutical-journal.c...irstPass=false

The above claims are fact-checked here (facts, remember them, Brexiters?)
Brexit access to insulin | Diabettech - Diabetes and Technology

Basically all the human insulin, used by 97% of those affected, comes from the EU.

This could affect the PM herself, although I'm pretty sure she'll have the resources to fly in a stash personally as needed

The consensus is yes, if there are any delays at customs post Brexit, there will definitely be an effect, special measures will have to be put into place*- it will take time and money to set up a (human) insulin manufacturing plant in the UK.

*Given the fact that this govt is so incompetent, I thank my lucky stars I have no medcial conditions at all (and also obviously that I'm not in the UK, I keep forgetting that :-) ) - I wouldn't want to rely on this useless shower.

[GreenMirror]

Amazed this has had no comment.

The UK is very reliant on alot of things it has no need to be reliant on.

[sasguru]

Amazed this has had no comment.

The UK is very reliant on alot of things it has no need to be reliant on.

Don't be an idiot. No country makes everything it needs, that would be inefficient. Countries specialise.
It's not a problem until people decide they'd rather be akin to North Korea.

[GreenMirror]

The UK is very reliant on alot of things it has no need to be reliant on.

Don't be an idiot. No country makes everything it needs, that would be inefficient. Countries specialise.

I did not say the UK should make everything it needs. Indeed, natural resources can be incredibly hard to make. e.g. Nazi Germany managed to make oil out of coal - it was incredibly expensive.

Though I must apologise. I forgot I was replying to a post by a cretin.

[sasguru]

I did not say the UK should make everything it needs. Indeed, natural resources can be incredibly hard to make. e.g. Nazi Germany managed to make oil out of coal - it was incredibly expensive.

Though I must apologise. I forgot I was replying to a post by a cretin.

Are you begging Admin as we speak to let your alter-ego back?
Doh!

[Mordac]

This is being hotly discussed at work today - unusually because usually nobody gives a tulip about Brexit on the mainland. But it's obviously pharma-sector related hence the interest.

https://www.pharmaceutical-journal.c...irstPass=false

The above claims are fact-checked here (facts, remember them, Brexiters?)
Brexit access to insulin | Diabettech - Diabetes and Technology

Basically all the human insulin, used by 97% of those affected, comes from the EU.

This could affect the PM herself, although I'm pretty sure she'll have the resources to fly in a stash personally as needed

The consensus is yes, if there are any delays at customs post Brexit, there will definitely be an effect, special measures will have to be put into place*- it will take time and money to set up a (human) insulin manufacturing plant in the UK.

*Given the fact that this govt is so incompetent, I thank my lucky stars I have no medcial conditions at all (and also obviously that I'm not in the UK, I keep forgetting that :-) ) - I wouldn't want to rely on this useless shower.

You should invest in UK funeral firms, since you're so convinced we're all going to die in the first week of April next year.
We can buy insulin (and other medicines, and food, and all sorts of other essentials) from elsewhere in the world, if the EU want to make life difficult. And maybe have a system whereby certain medical imports are fast-tracked, and the paperwork is done later. You can be a bit of a drama queen sometimes...

[sasguru]

You should invest in UK funeral firms, since you're so convinced we're all going to die in the first week of April next year.
We can buy insulin (and other medicines, and food, and all sorts of other essentials) from elsewhere in the world, if the EU want to make life difficult. And maybe have a system whereby certain medical imports are fast-tracked, and the paperwork is done later. You can be a bit of a drama queen sometimes...

You didn't read the article did you? You really are a thicko, like most Brexiters.
If I was a Type 1 in the Uk I would be concerned.

PS I suppose you're for a real aka hard Brexit then?

[Old Greg]

You should invest in UK funeral firms, since you're so convinced we're all going to die in the first week of April next year.
We can buy insulin (and other medicines, and food, and all sorts of other essentials) from elsewhere in the world, if the EU want to make life difficult. And maybe have a system whereby certain medical imports are fast-tracked, and the paperwork is done later. You can be a bit of a drama queen sometimes...

Paupers' graves will do your fine.

[Mordac]

You didn't read the article did you? You really are a thicko, like most Brexiters.
If I was a Type 1 in the Uk I would be concerned.

PS I suppose you're for a real aka hard Brexit then?

D'you know what, I didn't. I did read your panic-laden sleeve notes, and responded to them. I did find myself wondering how diabetics who happen to live outside the EU are still alive, but at that point I realised you've managed to turn something that might possibly worst-case-scenario happen into something that's definitely going to happen.

PS - I love it when you call me a thicko, it gives me a lovely warm glow of deep satisfaction, because we both know that was your best (and only) shot.
PS2 - I'm for the Brexit which means we leave the EU. I don't think any sort of a halfway-house Brexit is an option now anyway, because the EU would look like mugs if they agreed to it. It's "hard Brexit" or remain, and we've gone too far to even think about the remain option, so "hard" it is.

[Old Greg]

I did find myself wondering how diabetics who happen to live outside the EU are still alive,

Quality.