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The Gary Meek Story

A retired teacher claims a £19 patch has cured his chronic back pain and freed him from a life of prescription painkillers - but says the NHS still won't prescribe it to him.

Gary Meek, 62, from Harlow, Essex, suffers from degenerative disc disorder – a debilitating condition which causes chronic lower back pain.

He says the ActiPatch has saved the NHS £8,000 a year and is calling for it to be available to other sufferers.

After initially buying it for himself, Gary then mentioned it to his GP.

He said: "She’d never heard of it. I explained how it worked for me but she was unable to prescribe it for me as the request to the CCG was refused on the basis of there being ‘no evidence’ to support the benefits.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ive-cured-chronic-back-pain-14985643

There is not a big difference between the CCGs and the new ICBs. There were 200 CCGs and this has been consolidated into 42 ICBs. Facilities dealing with mental health which were not under CCG control are now under ICB control. The ICBs will have more control over the actual hospitals that provide the patient care.

Unite the Union surveyed the 3,392 CCG board members in 2015 and reported that 513 were directors of private healthcare companies: 140 owned such businesses and 105 carried out external work for them. More than 400 CCG board members were shareholders in such companies.