Commissioners

NHS England and NHS Improvement issued a report last week setting out a series of measures to help remove barriers to the appropriate prescription of medical cannabis on the NHS. The report, commissioned by the government in March, comes amid a farcical situation in the UK in which medical cannabis containing THC has been legalised for certain conditions since November 2018; yet reportedly, just two children have been given NHS prescriptions since. The new measures aim to tackle the current stasis both by helping doctors gain a better understanding of cannabis medicine and speeding up the generation of vital research linking cannabis with various conditions and symptoms.

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