Hi everyone,
Thanks in advance if you’re able to help with this.
My daughter is 8, in year four at primary. She has an individual health care plan that was put in place at the start of term. However, she’s had a continuous glucose monitor since then, so all the stuff about finger pricks is irrelevant now, and it’s changed the reading at which we treat hypos (start treating at 4.4 instead of 3.9). she can also anticipate a hypo before it happens and have a snack to stop it happening.
We had a meeting scheduled this week with the hospital team to get the school staff up to speed on the new gadget, but it got cancelled due to tech difficulties. Not a big deal, it’ll get rearranged.
When I went into school to do her insulin this lunch time, one of the staff that keeps on eye on her was asking again about the changes, and I explained them but said I’d write them down because it was a lot of me jabbering on. Sent it by email and just got one back saying thanks but they need to stick to the original plan. My daughter knows what’s what and would make sure people know if she gets to 4.4 and how to treat herself and that there’s no arguing about it.
This isn’t the biggest issue in the world, I know. But I guess my question is related to the process of making amendments to the health care plan. Who has the authority to do it? Like if we wanted to change her hypo snacks or something, does that have to be cleared by the hospital before the school allows it? There’s going more changes soon (she’s waiting for a pump).
Not a criticism of the school in any way, they’ve been brilliant, it’s just one of those technical issues I have no idea about and have no clue how big a deal anything is.