Reply to post: Re: NHS are at it too

Who's to blame for the NHS drug prices ripoff?

tfewster
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Re: NHS are at it too

You're lucky you don't have the same GP as me. I used to get 28 days worth of tablets in a prescription, to be taken daily for a long term condition (but not one covered by the Exemptions, so I had to get a repeat prescription every 4 weeks - which was especially annoying before EPS came in, as I had to leave work early to collect a prescription from the Surgery).

Some time ago, (we) agreed to halve the dosage, so my prescription actually lasted for 8 weeks. After a couple of months of that, the Surgery halved the quantity on the prescription so it ran out after 4 weeks again.

I wrote to the practice manager, complaining that this had been done without consultation and that it was a waste of Surgery and Pharmacy staff time - Which is what the prescription charge is MEANT to cover, not the cost of the medicine. Didn't get a reply of course, and as I have no intention of taking time off work to go in and argue with them, I continue to subsidise wastage in the the NHS.

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