Coeliac Disease
(asked on 6th October 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to improve delivery of primary care health services for people with coeliac disease; and if he will make a statement.
To support primary care services in the diagnosis, treatment, care and support of 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. These include implementation advice on the provision of 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:
In October 2016, NICE published an accompanying Quality Standard (QS) that sets out the markers of high quality care for people with coeliac disease. The QS can be found at the following link: