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Children Answer -In West Celiac disease will no longer get Instead of suggesting with gluten-free food-health owners on the prescription to cut the cost, they can turn food Bank For help.
About 40 percent of the Independent Care Board (ICBS) has stopped providing providing around the country Cluce free product for KoeliqThose costs while arguing NHS Their cost is higher than their cost to buy in supermarkets.
NowHealthcare leaders Cheshire and Mercesis have suggested Children Living in poverty can use food Bank Or food pantry instead – a decision Doctors Northwest is described as “cruel and risky”.
This decision comes despite doctors who take care of patients with celiac disease-which affects about 1 percent of people in Britain-it is advisable that the only effective treatment is a gluten-free diet, and if left untreated, Complications,
Physicians and doctors have tried to intervene and, in the email seen by IndependentWarned that this decision would run inequalities, in which families are unable to eat.
In a meeting in May, when it was decided to cut the decision Tips For both adults and ChildrenOfficials of the Cheshire and Mercesis ICB accepted the problem in front of the poorest families.
An executive asked: “Have we installed or not food Bank And the food pantry has regular gluten-free products available, and if not, it can be applied to ensure that the weakest people have access to access through those mechanisms? ,
Another said: “I will see if we can be engrossed [food] Pantries because I think this is the area that we might have the biggest impact. ,
During the hot meeting, a member of the public warned: “You are eating food from children’s mouth … The region has found some of the country’s poorest areas. You are assigning a legal duties. [back] For charity, back to Victorian values. You are a group of Mary Antonates, all of you should be ashamed of yourself. ,
ICB decided to expand the prescription for children to six months, which is due to ending in November.
Next to the change, a doctor gave a strict warning on the scale of food poverty in the area, giving the example of a diabetes child, which was forced to keep his emergency medicine for hypoglychemia for dinner because his family had no food.
Email viewed by IndependentSaid: “I was completely surprised and very sad if I am honest – and I completely understand the concerns that it will run to health inequalities in children’s families Coeliac disease,
“ICB’s mitigation strategy, which involves checking whether food banks stock gluten-free food-I think if they are discussing it, it is not worth putting on children. Their understanding is that people are actually quite optimistic and reduce the risks.”
In another email seen by IndependentA physician stated that the ICB’s decision “shows a shocking level of ignorance”, “Warning short -term monetary gains that will cost much longer.”
NHS The dietist warned that the cost of care of NHS for children affected by the policy would increase, and warned of recent examples of newly diagnosed children, who were “unable to bear gluten-free products and were hungry in the clinic”.
Physicians also warned that children who are unable to control it through their diet also risk the development of gastric lymphoma and cancer.
Dr. Helen Stewart, officer for health improvement for Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health, said: ,Directing families for food banks is a much deeper systemic issue than only short -term food insecurity. This growing hair is a symptom of poverty and the fact that many families do not have the necessary income required to provide a healthy, balanced diet for their children.
“Food banks should only have a stop-gap measures, and they cannot guarantee access to specific foods or nutritional needs that growing children.”
Around 2,300 people across the Cheshire and Mercesis, some of the most disadvantaged population in the country, reached gluten-free food Tips Before the cut.
Despite accepting concerns over the impact of cuts on children, the ICB argued that it should move forward.
According to Health Service Journal reports, Celiac UK has stopped prescriptions for gluten -free food to 13 out of 42 integrated care boards.
The National Institute of Clinical Excellence, which recommends which medicines and products should be provided to NHS, to update their guidance in June 2025 to accept that the availability of glutin-free food on the prescription varies widely in the UK and recommends “using their clinical decisions”.
It states that the selection of gluten-free products can be determined on NHS and is classified as “borderline substances”, which means that they can be considered equal to drugs for management of health conditions.
A spokesperson of the NHS Cheshire and Mercyside ICB said that it was not included food banks as the “official mitigation” measures of the cuts and found that not all in the region had access to the same level of gluten-free food.
It states: “It is important that we adopt a consistent approach to our entire population, while at the same time ensure that NHS resources are being used as effectively as possible.”
Prior to ending the prescription for children in November, the ICB said that GPS would write to those who affect them to signed different options.