IS there no end to the ordeal being suffered by the English over the cost of NHS prescriptions?
I have just returned from the pharmacy where there were two items on my prescription. I was obliged to pay the recently increased charge of £8.80 for each item, £17.60 in total.
It is infuriating, besides being massively unfair, that in the UK it is only in England that charges are imposed, inhabitants of Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland paying not a single penny to have their medicines dispensed via NHS prescription.
I fail to understand why this has not produced a huge public outcry in England over the shocking inequality.
It would not be in the least surprising if there were to be a political agenda behind this.
I would suggest that letters be sent to each MP without delay, demanding that charges in England be abandoned immediately, but if this measure cannot be afforded, then least the national cost of prescriptions must be divided equally between each country that makes up the UK not allowing England to, in effect, subsidise the rest.
Bobby Meynell, Stockton
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