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.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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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

  1. 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.

  2. 14 Oct 2024

    Target answer date

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  3. 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...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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