Less then 20% of people pay for prescriptions. A proportion of those that have to pay cannot afford £6.65 per item consequently they do not get essential medication?
Patients with hypothyroid disease get not just their Thyroxine free but all prescriptions yet asthmatics and hypertensives who often require far more medication have to pay for all their prescriptions?
There is massive over ordering and waste of medications because most be people dont pay. Consequently they often order "just in case" and never use the medication.
Surely a £1 charge for every medication for everyone would be a better system - simple and waste reducing. Some compensation through taxation could be used to protect the chronically ill and the poorest members of society.
Read my article on www.2020health.org and post please
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