Plans to cut gluten-free products from prescription

[maureenho]

Norfolk coeliac sufferers will no longer get gluten-free food on prescription

08:20 12 October 2015 Nicholas Carding


Cash-strapped health bosses have announced plans to cut gluten-free products from patients’ prescriptions in a bid to make savings.
The move would make the majority of Norfolk the largest area in England where the products, currently prescribed to people with coeliac disease, would not be provided by the NHS.

Spokesmen for local and national coeliac support groups have opposed the plans, warning those affected would be at risk of developing more serious health conditions later in life at greater expense to the NHS.

The plans have been announced by Norwich and South Norfolk clinical commissioning groups (CCG).

And the EDP understands West Norfolk CCG are in the process of drawing up plans to follow suit.

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[annie]

I think this is happening all over the country now, the NHS is virtually bankrupt
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[wendy]

It said on our local news the problem seems to be the wastage spent on agency nurses.
Norfolk is trying really hard to recruit new nurses instead of agency nurses.