of people with diabetes are avoiding these new meters like the plague. The crunch will come when people are forced to use them in March. These meters have two key failings: they are inaccurate and they don't work if the ambient temperature is below 10degC (which happens frequently here in Otago). Twenty years ago I had a meter that had to be kept in the hot water cupboard to enable it to work - that is what we are being asked to regress to. The trade-off for cheap meters is supposed to be increased funding for insulin pumps. But, the criteria to qualify for a pump are so difficult to meet that most people with Type 1 diabetes will not qualify for funding, and people with Type 2 diabetes have no use for a pump at all. I struggle with the idea that the 'fallout hasn't really hit' as those who have already got the meters are having huge issues with it. The meters have not been tested on children, they read higher than meters that diabetics already have, the strips are minute, there is no software available, readings can be deleted and the list goes on and on. Sadly some people have their own agendas, which in this case seems to be making more pumps available. There are still thousands of people out there who don't even know that there is a change in meter, and they won't know until they go to get their usual supplies and find