{"id":342,"date":"2007-12-06T12:09:23","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T11:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/?p=342"},"modified":"2017-05-20T12:18:46","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T11:18:46","slug":"northamptonshire-new-prescribing-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/northamptonshire-new-prescribing-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Northamptonshire: new prescribing scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember all the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/?p=224\">brouhaha over prescriptions<\/a> in Northamptonshire a while ago?<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-content\/pharmacysymbol.gif' alt='pharmacy' align=\"right\" hspace=\"10px\" vspace=\"10px\" \/>The Northamptonshire Primary Care Trust has now come up with a great new scheme to help coeliacs get gluten free prescriptions directly from the pharmacist rather than via the GP.<\/p>\n<p>When coeliac patients ask for a repeat prescription, they will get a referral letter which should be handed to their local pharmacy in order to register for the new service. Once registered, patients will then select with the pharmacist their gluten-free products using local guidelines approved by the Coeliac Society.<\/p>\n<p>The previous difficulty was a cost-cutting measure; it&#8217;s not clear how this new scheme helps cut costs, but it ought to reduce the workload on doctors a bit, and possibly give coeliacs a little more choice over what is prescribed.  For example, if Juvela are having a problem supplying enough bread this month, then the pharmacist might know this, and suggest requesting Glutafin instead, rather than having to request a revised prescription &#8211; or go without.  <\/p>\n<p>How flexible the new system will be will depend on the pharmacist now, who will become the new gatekeeper to gluten free prescribable goods.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, I take the paper repeat prescription request to the pharmacist, who takes it to the doctor, collects it some days later when the doctor has issued a new prescription, and then orders the goods.  (This is an improvement on the old scheme, where I had to take the request to the doctor, wait 2 or 3 days to collect it and then take it to the pharmacist, who would order the goods).  When the gluten free bread\/flour\/whatever has arrived, the pharmacist calls me.  I then go to the pharmacist again, to collect the goods.  The middle steps will disappear, and therefore the whole process should be quicker, too.  After all, it&#8217;s only food &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t need input from a doctor every time.<\/p>\n<p>It will be very interesting to see how this pans out.  I&#8217;d go for it!  <\/p>\n<p>For more, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northamptonchron.co.uk\/evening-telegraph\/Scheme-will-aid-wheat-allergy.3546680.jp\">Northamptonshire Chronicle and Echo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember all the brouhaha over prescriptions in Northamptonshire a while ago? The Northamptonshire Primary Care Trust has now come up with a great new scheme to help coeliacs get gluten free prescriptions directly from the pharmacist rather than via the GP. When coeliac patients ask for a repeat prescription, they will get a referral letter [&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-342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-living-gluten-free","7":"category-gluten-free-prescriptions","8":"entry","9":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","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=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}