Coeliac Disease
(asked on 4th September 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department is doing to improve recognition of coeliac disease by primary care health services.
To support primary care services in the diagnosis, treatment care and support people with coeliac disease, in September 2015 the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published the best practice guideline Coeliac disease: recognition, assessment and management.
The NICE guideline sets out seven recommendations to improve services for coeliac patients and includes implementation advice for the local National Health Service on the provision of the laboratory testing and interpretation of results and access to healthcare professionals trained to give specialist dietetic advice in relation to coeliac disease. The guidance can be found at the following link: