Ailsa Colquhoun's Article (PJ, 12 November 2011, p576) highlights some of the difficulties coeliac patients currently face in some parts of England in obtaining supplies of a range of gluten-free dietary staples. The new Coeliac UK/Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee/National Pharmacy Association toolkit1 will provide a wide range of gluten-free dietary staples while giving commissioners a way to make substantial cost reductions (the estimated first-year saving in England, if adopted by all primary care trusts, would be ￡5m to ￡ 11m).
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