{"id":59326,"date":"2025-08-11T06:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T06:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/59326\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T06:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T06:11:07","slug":"devon-patients-want-thyroid-drug-made-available-to-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/59326\/","title":{"rendered":"Devon patients want thyroid drug made available to all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">NHS Devon said current advice was T3 should only be given by an NHS consultant endocrinologist when being prescribed for hypothyroidism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The British Thyroid Foundation said this reflected a regional variance in prescribing T3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said NHS guidance was unclear and left scope for local prescribing bodies to &#8220;de-prescribe, limit prescriptions or not initiate new patients on this treatment&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The charity said scientific evidence to support the benefits of T3 was unclear so not all endocrinologists were willing to prescribe it. But the charity supported calls for more research.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Julia Priestley, from the charity, said: &#8220;We think patients who have been shown to have a clinical need for T3 should be able to access it on the NHS, wherever they live. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We work with other UK charities to help patients who may benefit from T3 to obtain it fairly, consistently and based on clinical need. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We also support research to answer unsolved questions about T3&#8217;s effectiveness and long-term safety.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The charity warned that self-sourcing the drug without appropriate medical supervision could be dangerous. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NHS Devon said current advice was T3 should only be given by an NHS consultant endocrinologist when being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[64,63,137,490],"class_list":{"0":"post-59326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-medication"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}