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Abolish prescription fees

Submitted by James Sushant Varma Bond on Wednesday 14th July 2021

Published on Tuesday 20th July 2021

Current status: Closed

Closed: Thursday 20th January 2022

Signatures: 185

Relevant Departments

Department of Health and Social Care

Tagged with

Abolished ~ Administration ~ Buying ~ Citizens ~ Clinical ~ Doctor ~ England ~ Ireland ~ Medicine ~ Money ~ Northern ~ Northern Ireland ~ People ~ Run ~ Scotland ~ Staff ~ Tax ~ The View ~ Up ~ Wales ~ Wales and Northern Ireland ~ You

Petition Action

Abolish prescription fees

Petition Details

Citizens of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland do not have to pay the prescription tax yet in England we do. The £9.35 charge often results in patients asking their doctor "what can I do without?" for financial reasons. Some people resort to buying medication online which can lead to death.

Additional Information

I used to be a pharmacy technician. If you take administration into account the prescription tax costs more to run than it brings in! That's not my view, that was the view of staff at the health authority. It would not be difficult to make up for the financial shortfall. Well-organized good quality clinical medicine is always without exception value for money medicine.

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