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shared care
- social welfare an arrangement between a welfare agency and a family with a dependent handicapped member, whereby the agency takes the handicapped person into a home for respite care or in emergencies
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Trusting each other again on some level could be what saves our country—and the essential social programs that reflect our shared care for one another.
GPs can only prescribe cannabis-based products under the direction of a specialist doctor in a shared care agreement, the government said.
Following Hannah's campaign, Alfie's GP was granted a licence to prescribe it under direction by a specialist doctor, in a process called a shared care agreement.
If a GP does not agree to a shared care agreement, the person must either wait to be referred to an NHS specialist or pay for prescriptions via private healthcare.
"It would not be usual or expected for a GP to prescribe a specialist amber drug at the request of a private provider in the absence of an agreed shared care arrangement," the department said.
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