If you are diagnosed as requiring a gluten free diet, you should be able to get some basic gluten free staples on prescription here in the UK. These include: bread, flour, pasta, pizza bases, crackers and a few sweet biscuits. This isn't the full range of goods available in the UK - there are more foods available in supermarkets, healthfood … [Read more...]
Discussion of Coeliac Disease in Parliament
On 21st February, Members of Parliament discussed coeliac disease for half an hour. Not bad, given the amount of stuff they have to discuss. The focus of the discussion was on the need to improve diagnosis, but also on the importance of prescriptions as a source of gluten free food for people with coeliac disease. As you may know, … [Read more...]
Early Day Motion – prescriptions again
You may be aware that some Primary Care Trusts here in the UK are trying to save money by cutting back on prescriptions of gluten free food to coeliacs. I have blogged about this before ... Gordon Banks MP has tabled an Early Day Motion (No. 276: Prescriptions for people with coeliac disease) in the House of Commons, in the hope that his fellow … [Read more...]
