Gluten-free Prescriptions – UK
A good range of gluten-free foods are available on prescription in the UK – though not everything. You can get different kinds of gluten-free bread, gluten-free rolls, crackers or crispbread, a range of pasta, pizza bases, flour and some sweet biscuits. See the list of prescribable items below.
If you do not receive free prescriptions, then it is well worth going for a prescription season-ticket.
You shouldn’t have difficulty in getting the prescription goods that you want. There is a list of guidelines as to what is appropriate to prescribe for which group of the population.
Gluten-free foods – how much will I need?
The following advice on prescription quantities was published in “Crossed Grain”, the magazine for coeliacs published by Coeliac UK.
There are at present no rules as to the amount of GF food GPs can prescribe for their NHS patients with Coeliac Disease/Dermatitis Herpetiformis in UK.
Below are the monthly (repeat prescription) suggested amounts of GF foods
(from Crossed Grain magazine, based on Leicestershire Health Authority et al recommendations).
These quantities of GF foods are based on the calorie requirements of the different groups.
Approximate monthly requirements for:
| Child up to two years: | 4 to 8 loaves of bread, 2 pkts biscuits/crackers, 1 pkt pizza bases, 500g pasta, 500g flour |
| 3-5 year old child: | 8 to 16 loaves, 2 pkts biscuits/crackers, 1 pkt pizza bases, 500g pasta, 500g flour |
| 6-10 year old child or younger inactive female or older active female or older inactive male each requires: |
8 to 24 loaves, 2 pkts biscuits / crackers, 1 pkt pizza bases, 500g pasta, 500g flour |
| 10-15 year old child or younger active female or younger inactive male or older active male each requires: |
16 to 32 loaves, 3 pkts biscuits/crackers, 1 pkt pizza bases, 500g pasta, 500g flour |
| 15-18 year olds: (*younger active male)” |
20 to 40* loaves, 3 pkts biscuits/crackers, 1 pkt pizza bases, 500g pasta, 500g flour |
Crossed Grain is the magazine available to members from Coeliac UK
Gluten-free prescribable foods
| Barkat | brown rice pizza crust biscuits bread mix brown rice bread buckwheat pasta (penne, spirals) digestive biscuits flour mix par-baked baguettes par-baked country sliced loaf par-baked rolls par-baked white bread par-baked white sliced bread pasta (animal shapes, macaroni, spaghetti, spirals, tagliatelle) round crackers wheat-free multi grain bread white rice bread wholemeal sliced bread white rice pizza crust |
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| Bi-Aglut | bread rolls bread flour mix plain flour |
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| BiAlimenta | pasta: acini di pepe (pasta grains), formati misti (variety pack), penne, sagnette, spirali, tubetti potato pasta gnocchi potato pasta perle di gnocchi |
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| Dietary Specials | cracker bread
multigrain sliced loaf pasta (fusilli, penne, spaghetti) pizza bases white bread mix white cake mix |
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| Ener-G | brown rice bread cookies (vanilla flavour) dinner rolls white rice bread |
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| Finax | coarse flour mix fibre bread mix flour mix | |
| Genius | brown bread white bread sliced brown breadsliced white bread |
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| Glebe Farm Foods | brown bread mix white bread and pizza mix |
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| Glutafin |
baguettes biscuits crackers digestive biscuits high fibre crackers mini crackers pasta (lasagne, long-cut spaghetti, macaroni penne, shells, spirals, tagliatelle nests) pizza base wheat-free fibre loaf (sliced) Select fresh brown bread Select seeded loaf |
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| Gratis | pasta (alphabets, macaroni, shells, short cut spaghetti, spirals) | |
| Heron Foods | Organic bread mix
Organic hi-fibre bread mix |
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| Il Pane di Anna | pizza base mix white bread mix white cake mix |
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| Innovative Solutions | pure brown rice flour pure potato flour pure blended flour |
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| Juvela | bread rolls crispbread digestive biscuits fibre bread rolls fibre flakes fibre loaf (sliced and unsliced) fresh sliced fibre loaf part-baked bread rolls |
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| Lifestyle | bread rolls
brown bread |
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| Livwell | baguette circle bread rolls (part baked) flat bread sliced brown bread sliced white bread |
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| Mrs Crimbles | bread mix fresh bread pastry mix |
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| Nairns | oat porridge | |
| Orgran | bread mix buckwheat spirals pasta corn spirals pasta pizza & pastry mix rice spirals rice and millet spirals |
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| Pasticely | elbow pasta part baked white baguettes part baked white rustic rolls rustic white bread sliced sandwich white bread sliced macaroni |
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| Polial | biscuits | |
| Proceli | bread buns brown rice bread part-baked baguettes part-baked flat bread part-baked long white rolls white lunch rolls |
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| Rizopia | brown rice pasta (fusilli, lasagne, penne, spaghetti) | |
| Sunnyvale | mixed grain sourdough bread | |
| Tobia | teff brown flour teff white flour |
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| Tritamyl | brown bread mix flour mix white bread mix |
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| Ultra | baguette bread bread rolls |
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| Valpiform | petites baguettes |
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| Warburtons | brown bread brown rolls< br />white bread white rolls |
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| Wellfoods | burger buns flour alternative loaf pizza bases rolls sliced loaf |
Gluten-free Wheat-free prescribable foods
If you are both gluten and wheat sensitive, then the following are suitable and available on prescription:
| Ener-G | pizza bases Seattle brown rolls (hamburgers) brown rolls (hot dogs) six flour loaf |
| Glutafin | crispbread bread mix cake mix fibre bread mix pastry mix |
| Heron foods | organic bread/cake mix
organic hi-fibre bread mix |
This information is taken from the Prescription Pricing Authority’s site, and was issued: May 2012
