Prescription Charges!

I believe that now that prescription charges have been abolished in other parts of the United Kingdom there is a strong case for abolishing them completely in England. They are unjust and a tax on the sick. In this post I would like to concentrate on a move that as just been made by my local primary care trust that as effectively meant a doubling in prescription charges for some.
My local PCT as told doctors not to prescribe any medication or treatment for longer than twenty eight days where previously people on long term medication have been given two or three months supply at a time. This means someone paying seven pounds and twenty pence for a two month supply of drugs is now having to pay fourteen pond forty pence for those drugs.I find this outrageous and a scandal. It is punishing people who are struggling with sickness and who may be finding things though financially because of an inability to work because of their condition.I think its wrong and if we had a caring government which we do not have they would intervene to stop.It is an effective tax increase of one hundred per cent for being ill!!!!

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