Even so, that’s a staggering level of price insensitivity.
My pharmacist’s motorbike courier has just come round with the usual monthly goody bag, including the codeine that I’ve twice asked the surgery to take off the regular list as I have enough already in my pill safe to treat and constipate a dozen elephants. I don’t care enough to keep making a huge fuss about it, and the pharmacist gets to pad out the order and recoup more of the courier costs. Somewhere, the system of incentives to reduce waste could be improved. I get how the NHS effectively pays a license fee for proprietary drugs, so a few wasted packs here and there are irrelevant, but there must be savings on generics.