{"id":224,"date":"2007-07-04T13:39:23","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T12:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/?p=224"},"modified":"2017-05-20T12:26:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T11:26:18","slug":"newsflash-prescription-changes-afoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/newsflash-prescription-changes-afoot\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsflash: prescription changes afoot \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coeliac.org.uk\/exg\/776.asp\">news from Coeliac UK<\/a> is that Northamptonshire PCT is to reconsider its policy of restricting prescriptions for gluten free foods for coeliacs.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve posted about this before, discussing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/?p=63\">NHS cuts for gluten free food<\/a> and <a href=\" http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/?p=73\">Northamptonshire prescription cuts<\/a>, so am very pleased to see that they are having a rethink.  It is important that coeliacs stick to a gluten free diet, to avoid ill health, and providing some basic staples to enable this will save the NHS money in the long run &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And it is more than just a change of mind, apparently, and more of a significant rethink &#8211; they are to remove the need for a prescription by giving patients a points system they can use to choose the gluten free products they want.  I haven&#8217;t seen any details for how this will work, but it sounds very interesting.  As long as patients are awarded enough points, of course, and we don&#8217;t swap prescription cuts for points cuts.  Watch this space &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest news from Coeliac UK is that Northamptonshire PCT is to reconsider its policy of restricting prescriptions for gluten free foods for coeliacs. I&#8217;ve posted about this before, discussing NHS cuts for gluten free food and Northamptonshire prescription cuts, so am very pleased to see that they are having a rethink. It is important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-living-gluten-free","7":"category-gluten-free-prescriptions","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}