I understand that non-exempt UK residents pay a charge of 5.50 p for
each prescribed item. I also understand that a considerable number of
products cost much less than the present level of the charge.
As an Italian who is trying to understand the British NHS, I have two
questions.
1) How can GPs resist the pressure from the patient to prescribe on
"private" form or just to indicate the therapy that is then prescribed
by another doctor?
2) isn't there an incentive to prescribe very long therapies with the
risk that the dispensed drug is not used?
Also, is there someone who can tell me which are the main drugs that
were blacklisted in 1995? I have found many articles saying that in
1995 the blacklisted products were extended, but in no one I have
found the name of the products.
Ciao e grazie
Giovanni Fattore
LSE Health
London School of Economics
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