I'd really love to get a new GP, maybe i'll persuade my hubby to move back to Scotland and we'll base ourselves in Ayrshire

Seriously though my longterm friend from school is a nurse practioner in Edinburgh, she runs the diabetic clinic and they have been steadily moving towards the lower carb end of the GI diet recommended here, simply put her patients have found it works better for them. Mind you her practice also allows you to have cholesterol testing whenever you like as its seen as preventative medicine, at my practice you have to get down on your knees and kiss your doctors feet before being given permission to have your blood tested for anything (and no i can't actually change doctors as our local health authority will not allow it due to too many patients/not enough doctors so if i piss off my GP i'll be without medical care).