[Margaret Pilkington]

If you read the Daily Telegraph article right to the end, you will see that there is a correction to this story.
The NHS do not spend £116 million on gluten free dietary supplements.....that is the entire cost of dietary supplement...These will include those nourishing drinks for patients who cannot eat normal food due to debilitating long term illness(cancer, Crohn's Disease....those patients who have motor neurone disease and cannot swallow and are fed through a hole in their abdominal wall.....it will also include patients who have other neurological conditions which affect their ability to swallow)....but I guess that this does not suit the purpose of your post Jason...to,demonise those who have a medical,condition over which they have no control, have played no part in(unlike alcoholics and drug addicts).....but you would wish this support(where it is accepted.....many coeliacs do not ask for prescribed foods) to be withdrawn.....remove from these people the rare chance to have a biscuit with their cup of tea. How very mean spirited this is.