NHS Bradford City and NHS Bradford Districts clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have recommended that GPs no longer prescribe gluten-free products.
This decision was reached following a public consultation on prescribing gluten-free food, which took place from July to September this year. The CCGs’ joint clinical board (JCB) made the decision to go ahead with one of the proposals from the consultation: to recommend and support GPs to stop providing gluten-free food on prescription.
For more than 30 years, the NHS has prescribed gluten-free foods like bread, flour, cereal and pasta for people with coeliac disease. In Bradford, the total annual spend is around £320,000. With an increasing demand for services, the NHS says it must look at all the products and services and make decisions about what services to expand and what to reduce.
Dr Akram Khan and Dr Andy Withers, clinical chairs of Bradford City and Bradford Districts CCGs, respectively, said: “We would like to thank people for taking part in the consultation and giving such excellent feedback. This has been a hard decision which we have certainly not taken lightly; we know this will affect many people with coeliac disease who have received gluten-free food on prescription for a long time.”
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