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Originally Posted by 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you would wish this support(where it is accepted.....many coeliacs do not ask for prescribed foods) to be withdrawn.....remove from these people the rare chance to have a biscuit with their cup of tea.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.
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As a non sufferer,It would be easy for me to say it's time those with this disease put on their big boy pants and cut the offending foods out of their diet but I do have a little empathy.
Im also fully aware there are many ways the NHS could save money,like you say,drug users (smokers and alcoholics included) who feel it's acceptable to abuse their body's then turn to the NHS to sort their (self inflicted) problems out, I agree, this too could and should be trimmed.
Maybe its just me being ignorant that I don't see how this 'food' is classed as a (tax funded) medicine or how difficult it is sticking to a strict diet.
Fact is,free stuff usually encourages not only waste but folk to take the Michael and I'm not happy paying for folk who take the p1ss which in turn caused me to post the article....perhaps (like G kindly pointed out) I'm just a "sheep"
