UK Members - Free Prescriptions!!!!

Hi Everyone,

Just thought I'd post in case any UK members on here are not aware of the new NHS charges which come into force on 1st April.

Any cancer patient will be entitled to free prescriptions effective from 1st April and this is any prescription, not just cancer drugs.  So those battling ED, or anything else requiring regular medication, you can now get the monthly 'allowance' as a free prescription.

Just go see your GP and get him to fill in the forms for you and they'll send you something like a credit card and apparently this card will let you get your prescriptions free!!!

Hope this helps some of you.

Take care & best wishes to you all.

Little Jem

 

And here in Canada as well.

Swim,
I am reluctant to comment on health systems that I do not fully understand so I cannot compare the countries who operate taxation funded universal health schemes for their citizens to those that offer a scheme that endorses survival of the fittest and/or more affluent. Tell me, how does a citizen of the U.S. who simply cannot afford health insurance, or, ( and this is probably more pertinent in these times of economic woe and as unemployment surges), one who is aged say 55, lost their job a year ago and no longer has insurance cover nor savings, get on when they receive a diagnosis of prostate cancer. In my own country for example, that person, although it may take a little longer will receive treatment, often by the countries finest doctors in the best hospitals and at little or no personal cost to them. Any drugs they require (unfortunately with the exception of ED drugs), including the most expensive ADT and chemo drugs will be supplied a a nominal cost of about $5-00. Surely your people do not have to depend on charity or are left to grin and bear it?
Bill