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ArticleHealth economics review2024

Budget impact analysis of continuous glucose monitoring in individuals with type 2 diabetes on insulin treatment in England.

Murtada Alsaif, Ali Farhat, Zoe Blumer, Leela Barham

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  1. Practical Approaches to Continuous Glucose Monitoring in Primary Care: A UK-Based Consensus Opinion.Diabetes therapy : research, treatment and education of diabetes and related disorders · 2025
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Murtada AlsaifIPG Health Global Market Access, London, UK. murtada@pharmasaif.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6523-9854
Ali FarhatIPG Health Global Market Access, London, UK.
Zoe BlumerIPG Health Global Market Access, London, UK.
Leela BarhamLearna Ltd in partnership with the University of South Wales, Cardiff, Wales, UK.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionIn 2022, updated guidance from NICE expanded the options for self-monitoring of blood glucose for patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM), to include continuous glucose monitoring (CGM). In this budget impact analysis, the cost impact of CGM was compared with traditional self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) in adults with T2DM over 1 year from the commissioner perspective in England. RESEARCH DESIGN AND

methodsThe NICE-eligible T2DM cohort was split into 4 subgroups to enable nuanced costing by insulin administration frequency: basal human insulin, premixed insulin, basal-bolus insulin and bolus insulin. The model's cost components comprised mild and severe hypoglycaemia (SH), diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), consumables and healthcare resource utilisation in primary and secondary care.

resultsThe introduction of CGM is estimated to be cost additive by approximately £4.6 million in the basecase, driven by increased spending on the CGM device. Overall, healthcare activity was reduced by approximately 20,000 attendances, due to fewer SH and DKA episodes in the CGM arm. General Practitioner (GP) practice-based activity is expected to drop after the first year as patients requiring CGM training is reduced. The budget impact could be neutralised if the CGM sensor was discounted by 13.2% (£29.76 to £25.83).

conclusionsCGM may result in increased spending in the NICE-eligible T2DM cohort but is expected to reduce demand on secondary care services and GP time. These findings may be of interest to local decision-makers who wish to resolve the COVID-19 backlog with transformational investment in primary care to reduce secondary care activity.

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AdultBlood GlucoseBlood Glucose Self-MonitoringCOVID-19Decision MakingDiabetes Mellitus, Type 2Diabetic KetoacidosisHypoglycemiaInsulinInsulin, Regular, Human

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PMID38709338
PMCPMC11071237

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