Question follow-through · 8603
Coeliac Disease: Prescriptions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to update guidance to Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) on the need to offer gluten free staples on NHS prescription for people with coeliac disease.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 10 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 14 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 18 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to update guidance to Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) on the need to offer gluten free staples on NHS prescription for people with coeliac disease.
14 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Oct 2024
Answer published
NHS England has no plans to update the guidance. The Department undertook a national consultation in 2017 on the prescribing of gluten-free (GF) foods in primary care. The rationale for this was the increased availability of these products in supermarkets...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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