The NHS is to stop prescribing gluten free foods to patients suffering from digestive conditions such as coeliac disease as part of its latest budget cuts.
GPs in England will also be told not to prescribe medications such as those for upset stomachs, travel sickness and haemorrhoids in the drive to eliminate waste from the NHS’s £120bn annual budget.
If you have coeliac disease, we’d like to hear from you. Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, said it no longer needs to prescribe some foods as they are on sale in supermarkets, but those who are already struggling for money and are helped with the cost of prescriptions could be hit hard. Are you affected?
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