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Government review of prescription charges
In October the government announced two concessions in relation to NHS prescription charges: the exemption of cancer patients from charges from April of 2009 and the exemption from charges for people...
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Abolish prescription charges – model resolution for union conferences
As part of the continuing campaign for the abolition of NHS prescription charges in all of the UK we are asking trades unionists to move a resolution to their national union conferences. Below is a...
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Abolish NHS Prescription Charges – Update
The Wiltshire & Swindon GMB union branch has passed a resolution which will go forward to the GMB’s national conference in June. If passed there it will commit the union to campaigning for...
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Stop double taxing the sick
Colin Fox has sent me this letter published in the Glasgow Herald letters page this Thursday. As the MSP who introduced the Bill to abolish NHS prescription charges to the Scottish Parliament in 2005 I...
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BMA calls for NHS prescription charges to be scrapped
HARDWORKING people are being forced to subsidise the NHS through unfair prescription charges, according to the British Medical Association. And a Swindon GP branded the rules on paying for medicine...
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2008 NHS Drug savings virtually cover cost of making prescription charges...
In the last year the NHS in England has saved nearly £394 million through GP’s prescribing generic drugs for common conditions such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and gastric problems. £278...
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NHS prescription review postponed until autumn
From the Health Service Journal The health minister has said a delayed review into the costs of prescriptions will be published in the autumn. It is expected that the review headed by Professor Ian...
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It incenses mee that they will be free for some not for others
I have chronic asthma and need several inhalers, without which I could possibly die. I am a student but I still have to pay for them and it is a lot of money. It incenses me that they will become free...
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Anger over Gordon Brown’s failure to implement free prescriptions pledge
Chronically ill to protest against plan being put back until after general election Gordon Brown is facing a backlash from charities representing up to 15 million people with long-term health...
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Charities call on PM to scrap prescription charges
In a letter to the prime minister seen by Healthcare Republic, the charities’ chief executives called on the prime minister to implement his promise of free prescriptions as soon as possible....
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