Prescription charges dropping to £5/item from April 2008

[equationgirl]

I was in Boots today picking up the latest batch of meds, and the pharmacist was telling the customer next to me that it wasn't worth buying a pre-pay prescription charge certificate at the new rate as the prescription charge is being cut to £5 per item from April this year, with it eventually being phased out altogether.

I have to admite, this is the first I've heard of it - anybody else heard anything?

 

[pogofish]

This is the first step towards the eventual abolition of charges in 2011.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7127997.stm

 

[chymaera]

This is the first step towards the eventual abolition of charges in 2011.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7127997.stm

In Scotland, not England.

 

[pogofish]

Yup.

Prepayment certs are also being cut:

The cost of pre-payment certificates will also be cut over the same timescale, coming down at first from £98.70 to £48, then down to £38 and finally £28, before they are ended.

So they may well remain viable for folk with regular multiple items. You would need to add them all up to see.

 

[chymaera]

Yup.

Prepayment certs are also being cut:



So they may well remain viable for folk with regular multiple items. You would need to add them all up to see.

Where is the quote from please.

 

[pogofish]

The BBC link in my previous post. Top of the second paragraph.

 

[equationgirl]

I'm on 3 medications as standard, which I get in 2 month blocks each, so that's 3 items every 2 months, so 18 charges per year at £5 a pop = £90 at the new rate.

I can even afford the 1 year certificate now for £48!!

Yay!

 

[lewislewis]

Good to see you guys following our lead!

 

[Ich bin ein Mod]

In Scotland, not England.

This is the Scotland forum

 

[bodach]

Still free from the hospitals direct, thank f*ck.

 

[pogofish]

Yup but some health authorities are much stricter on what they can hand out to non in-paitents than others.

 

[bodach]

Yup but some health authorities are much stricter on what they can hand out to non in-paitents than others.

Yeah, that's strange. I broke my wrist a couple of months back and the Belford in Fort William wouldn't give me a sick line. They said I had to go to a doctor and get one. Then today I had to go to the hospital again for stitches in my leg and they gave me enough antibiotics to kill a horse. And a tetnus. I couldn't get out of there fast enough.

 

[tar1984]

prescription charges...pffft.

just tick the box that says you're on income based JSA.

 

[Udo Erasmus]

In Wales they've been abolished, you should demand the same.

 

[osterberg]

In Wales they've been abolished, you should demand the same.

Thanks to the Plaid/Labour assembly government.Makes you proud to live in Wales , doesn't it ,Udo ?

 

[zenie]

When will they do this across the Uk...it's not fair is it?