Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 80318

Gluten-free Foods: Prescriptions

Tabled: 10 October 2025
Answered: 21 October 2025

Question

Victoria Collins

Liberal DemocratHarpenden and Berkhamsted

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to update information on the commissioning framework within the NHS England guidance entitled Prescribing Gluten Free Foods in Primary Care: Guidance for CCGs, publishe

Answer

Dr Zubir Ahmed
No recent assessment has been made by the Department. However, a review was undertaken in 2019, which confirmed that the position in England remains that gluten free (GF) bread and mixes can be provided to all eligible coeliac patients on a National Healt...

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