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To: Jeremy Hunt Minister for health
Stop English prescription Charges
Dear Mr. Hunt,
Why is England the only member of the UK that pays for prescription on the NHS.
We are also the only member that pays for hospital car parking. There are many other samples of inequality regarding England and the rest of the UK. The charges have gone up yet again, and still we are the only ones paying. People who work but have long term health problems are paying over £7.00 per item yet this is free to Scotland and Wales.
Why is England the only member of the UK that pays for prescription on the NHS.
We are also the only member that pays for hospital car parking. There are many other samples of inequality regarding England and the rest of the UK. The charges have gone up yet again, and still we are the only ones paying. People who work but have long term health problems are paying over £7.00 per item yet this is free to Scotland and Wales.
Why is this important?
People are finding it hard to make ends meet and some times have to choose between eating and having medication. People with Parkinson's, asthma and other life changing illnesses are finding this difficult to deal with. Ministers claim that it is not possible for England to abolish the charges because it would leave the NHS with debts of £450million a year. However The BMA chairman Dr Hamish Meldrum said that the Government should abolish charges and that many of the exemptions were unfair Still England is the only one paying . Read this for more information http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1372063/Prescriptions-From-today-English-pay-prescriptions-thats-April-Fools-joke.html#ixzz2vlx3a4IH
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