On Fri, 17 Jul 1998 08:19:45 +0100
"Andrew Herd" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I don't think so, although it would be incredibly sensible. The DoH has
> strongly resisted this kind of thing, on the grounds that the few people who
> pay for NHS scripts significantly help prop the system up by paying over the
> odds for cheap medication.
That's as maybe, but if the patient *insists * on a private prescription,
it is perfectly legal to do what they wish.
Hence the notice in the waiting room reminding them to *insist* on a
private prescription. And, as my hearing is so poor, often I have to say
'did I hear you insist on..etc?'
I have no qualms about this as I think it is totally immoral that HMG
charges a young working (for a pittance) farmhand £5.80 for his
salbutamol but not the banker with myxoedema, when £5.80 will buy 3205
tablets yes, three thousand two hundred and five tablets of T4 100mcg!
Cheerio,
Graham
'Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at
which one can die.'
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