High prices should not be denying people medicines they need 🖊️ paullewismoney
In England each item costs £9.65 – so three items would cost nearly £30. A survey of 269 pharmacists by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society found that one in two reported an increasing number of patients asked which medication they could do without because they could not afford them all.
That view was supported the next year in a study by the University of York’s Health Economics Consortium which found that scrapping charges for people with two long term conditions – Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Parkinson’s – could save NHS England more than £20 million a year from reduced hospital admissions, A&E visits, and GP appointments by people who could not afford to pay for their prescribed medication.
The tax raised is not significant. NHS England’s total budget for 2021/22 was £154bn. Income from prescriptions was just £652m, 0.4 per cent of the total. You might expect that all the effort put in to issue fines to a quarter of a million people in six months for wrongly or mistakenly claiming free prescriptions meant the losses were huge.
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