Instruction to GP's regarding the need to prescribe cheaper medicine

Response to this request is long overdue. By law, under all circumstances, Hywel Dda Community Health Council should have responded by now (details). You can complain by requesting an internal review.

Dear Hywel Dda Community Health Council (CHC),

On how many occasions has the CHC instructed/advised GP's to prescribe medicines which are cheaper than certain ones being prescribed?

If so, other than financial considerations, what authority in law does the CHC have to circumvent the clinical judgement of a GP?

If this practice has occurred, please advise as to the medicines concerned and those which were recommended as substitutes/replacements?

Yours faithfully,

Stephen Holloway

Sam Dentten, Hywel Dda Community Health Council

Dear Mr Holloway,

Hywel Dda Community Health Council is a separate and independent organisation to Hywel Dda Health Board, which is the statutory organisation that funds and provides health care to the population of Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire. We are a small body which seeks to represent public and patient views, provide local overview and scrutiny and help those who require support to make a complaint.

Thus we have no role and correspondingly no information in relation to the request you have made.

Your request would therefore be more appropriately aimed at Hywel Dda Health Board which can be contacted via the following link:

http://www.wales.nhs.uk/sitesplus/862/home

Kind regards

Sam Dentten
Deputy Chief Officer (Carmarthenshire/Pembrokeshire)

Cyngor Iechyd Cymuned Hywel Dda Sir Gaerfyrddin/ Hywel Dda Community Health Council Carmarthenshire
Phone/ Ffôn 01267 231384/232312

Hywel Dda Community Health Council , Ty Myrddin, Old Station Road, Carmarthenshire, Dyfed SA31 1BT
Cyngor Iechyd Cymuned Hywel Dda , Ty Myrddin, Old Station Road, Carmarthenshire, Dyfed SA31 1BT

www.communityhealthcouncils.org.uk

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Sam Dentten left an annotation ()

This request for information was answered fully Hywel Dda Community Health Council the same day it arrived.

Hywel Dda Community Health Council does not hold the information requested. We are a patient watchdog body and do not provide patient care, prescribe medication or make any clinical judgements, hence we re-directed the requestor to Hywel Dda University Health Board, which is the body responsible for providing care and making the kind of judgements or decisions which the requestor is interested in. We have had no response from the requestor since and would have dealt with any further correspondance swiftly.

This request is not overdue, it was answered fully on the day it was received.

I am unable to leave these comments in proper section allowed for the organisation as our email addresses have changed since this request. My new email address is: Sam.Dentten@waleschc.org.uk

Sam Dentten
Deputy Chief Officer