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stopmeandslapme said:
I may have the wrong end of the stick here, must have, but if the prescription money (about £8) is paid by the government to the NHS and the drugs cost 30p then prescribing drugs like paracetamol makes the NHS better funded. What am I missing?
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A ****ing brain? Who produces the tablets and gets the profits?

Honestly, no wonder Blighty is up the creek.
 
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Ciaran said:
Aye. We're quids in. Stick it on the side of a bus sure.
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I don't think you understand, I'll try to put it in simpler terms:
The NHS gets £8 off the government for each free prescription transaction, right?
If the drugs prescribed cost less than £8 then the remainder goes into the NHS coffers, right?
 
stopmeandslapme said:
I don't think you understand, I'll try to put it in simpler terms:
The NHS gets £8 off the government for each free prescription transaction, right?
If the drugs prescribed cost less than £8 then the remainder goes into the NHS coffers, right?
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No.
 
pineappleupsidedown said:
And the don't get charged 30p...

They get ripped off
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That's because they are forced to pay more than 30p?
Any manager in any other business would switch supplier.

In the chemist where I would get a prescription the paracetamol is there on the shelf for 30p, are we being charged more than that because we get a label with our name on stuck on the box? Where is the additional charge coming from?
 
stopmeandslapme said:
I don't think you understand, I'll try to put it in simpler terms:
The NHS gets £8 off the government for each free prescription transaction, right?
If the drugs prescribed cost less than £8 then the remainder goes into the NHS coffers, right?
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If that was the case why have the papers been urging people to buy their own paracetamol from the chemist to save the NHS money as it costs them too much? If the NHS were making money then the papers would be telling people to pretend they had a sore head and ask their doctor for prescription paracetamol all the time. Can we please now stop this charade and move on?
 
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monacoger said:
If that was the case why have the papers been urging people to buy their own paracetamol from the chemist to save the NHS money as it costs them too much? If the NHS were making money then the papers would be telling people to pretend they had a sore head and ask their doctor for prescription paracetamol all the time. Can we please now stop this charade and move on?
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I was just trying to establish the facts.
One other thing: does the NHS receive from the government a fixed sum to cover prescriptions or a sum based on the number of prescriptions?
 
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