Jersey residents with coeliac disease call for more financial support to pay for gluten-free groceries that can be double the price of their wheat counterparts.

Calls for more financial support over high gluten-free food prices

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Sue Loades, from Norfolk, with a gluten free loaf of bread - which Coeliac UK says can cost up to seven times more than a regular loaf. 

A gluten-free diet is 20% more expensive than a regular one and there are concerns it is unaffordable for many on low incomes.

Cost-of-living crisis 'forcing people to buy food that makes them ill'

New research shows a weekly gluten free food shop can be as much as 20% more expensive than a standard weekly food shop.

Cost of living sees price of gluten-free diets rise disproportionately

Growing numbers of people with coeliac disease are losing gluten-free foods on prescription, as NHS commissioning groups try to save money

Is this the end of gluten-free foods on prescription?

Over a third of local health services have reduced or cut prescriptions for patients living with coeliac disease, ITV News can reveal.

Coeliac sufferers' prescriptions cut in postcode lottery

Experts say the number of people in the UK diagnosed with Coeliac Disease has risen four-fold in the last twenty years. 

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