Gluten-free Foods: Prescriptions
Commons · Question 36296 · Tabled 6 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 13 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Freddie van Mierlo
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will direct NHS England to update the guidance on gluten-free food prescriptions in the document entitled Prescribing Gluten-Free Foods in Primary Care: Guidance for Clinical Commissioning Gr
Answer
Answered by Karin Smyth, 13 Mar 2025
NHS England currently has no plans to update the guidance. NHS England’s guidance on prescribing gluten-free foods in primary care was developed in 2018 to communicate to the then clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). The guidance stated that CCGs may fur...