{"id":304569,"date":"2025-12-08T06:51:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T06:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/304569\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T06:51:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T06:51:06","slug":"gluten-free-prescriptions-in-south-yorkshire-axed-to-save-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/304569\/","title":{"rendered":"Gluten-free prescriptions in South Yorkshire axed to save money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jody, from Barnsley, said her son was diagnosed with coeliac disease when he was just one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He deteriorated really fast,&#8221; said the 43-year-old said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It started with constipation and then it just got worse to the point where we couldn&#8217;t actually leave the house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He was in pain and we just got back from A and E when he projectile vomited.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said after the diagnosis he was &#8220;like a different child&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ICB said it had surveyed the price of bread in several supermarkets and found at the highest end Lidl&#8217;s GF 480g white loaf was \u00a32.99 compared to an 800g normal loaf for 49p.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jody said her family would struggle as a result of the change, saying: &#8220;Prescriptions [have] saved us an absolute fortune, it makes a massive difference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Buying gluten-free bread in the supermarket is not cheap, we would have to cut corners elsewhere. The cost of living crisis is massive and taking prescriptions away from under 18s will be really detrimental.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jody, from Barnsley, said her son was diagnosed with coeliac disease when he was just one. &#8220;He deteriorated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[102,6636,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-304569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-nutrition","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}