NHS pays £32.27 loaf of bread

NHS pays £32.27 loaf of bread

NHS pays £32.27 loaf of bread. NHS officials paid more than £32 each for thousands of small loaves of bread, it has emerged. The gluten-free product, which is given out free of charge to patients with coeliac disease, costs just £2.25 in supermarkets.

Official figures show the cost to the NHS of supplying it through pharmacies has rocketed to £32.27 for a small loaf – or £2.48 a slice. The total cost of the bread was £1.25million in a year.

The sum was paid by NHS officials in Wales. The Health Service there also pays £11.54 for a bag of pasta which costs £3.20 in a shop, and £7.14 for gluten-free biscuits that are £2.22 on the high street.

Darren Miller, Shadow Health Minister in the Welsh Assembly, uncovered the bread bill, which is only blamed on ‘administration charges’.

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