UK deciding to save money – will no longer prescribe and pay for Vitamin D except in a few cases.
Conditions for which over the counter items should not routinely be prescribed in primary care: A consultation on guidance for CCGs
- “In the year prior to June 2017, the NHS spent approximately £569 million on prescriptions for medicines which can be purchased over the counter from a pharmacy and other outlets such as supermarkets.”
* 10X increase in cost of vitamin D per child-year in UK in 6 years - Aug 2017
* 3X increase in UK children who are vitamin D deficient in just 5 years – Nov 2015
* 5 out of 6 UK dark skinned kids who were vitamin D deficient had no symptoms – May 2012
* 80 percent of South Asian Women in UK had less than 10 ng of vitamin D in winter – April 2012
* A look at inner workings of committee looking at vitamin D for UK - Dec 2012
* UK program to increase Vitamin D (Healthy Start) continues to be a farce - Nov 2014
* VitaminDWiki suspects that HealthyStart will be cancelled, so as to save money (in the very short term)
* Only 1 in 10 UK parents had been told about vitamin D by their child’s doctor – April 2015
* Post-mortem analysis of children in London Hospital – only 1 child had adequate level of vitamin D – July 2014