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I decided to attend the Input Roadshow held at Hilton Garden Inn – Luton on Saturday 14th April running from 1.00pm – 4.30pm and it was great to see Lesley and Anna from Input for a catch up.

I was pleasantly surprised to see so many people with Diabetes attend to ask questions and see what Insulin Pumps are currently available. The companies who attended were Animas, Roche, Medtronic, Cellnovo and Advanced Therapeutics all showing off their latest pieces of Diabetes kit.

I arrived at 1.00pm and was greeted by the Input team that put this super event together so well done to the Input team for a great event. My main objective was to say hi to some of my contacts from the Insulin Pump companies and to see what new technology is available.

I am already very familiar with the Medtronic Veo and Animas Vibe which are both superb Insulin Pumps which offer integrated CGM but I didn’t get a chance to chat with the team from Advanced Therapeutics (sorry guys) which I was a little annoyed at but purely because they were busy and I run out of time unfortunately. I did however get to speak with Jill from Animas who I have met a few times and Justin from Medtronic who again I know very well so it was good to have a chat. I wanted to know more about the Accu-Chek Combo pump as i had not seen it before and how it works so spoke with Sue who also gave me a demo of the system which was great as everything you need can be done by the handheld BG Smart Meter very easily, I also like the software which gave some great reports and was easy to understand. Next I spoke with Carol from Cellnovo which is a new pump shortly being released and certainly looks amazing with its iPhone looking handset to the small patch pump, unfortunately I don’t know a huge amount about the Cellnovo pump as it is very new. Cellnovo is basically a patch pump with an amazing smart handset that can do everything from testing your BG with a built in blood glucose meter for test strips to monitoring exercise due to the patch pump having a built in accelerometer – wow.

My next task is to try and convince Cellnovo to let me try their pump so I can physically see how it works day to day as seeing it in your hand is different to sleeping, working or even excersining wearing the patch pump.

All in all a very enjoyable afternoon and superbly organised by Input so well done guys. Check out the Input web site for more info on forthcoming events as it is well worth a visit.

Andrew Borrett

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