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As lead organisation for the Prescription Charges Coalition of 30 patient charities and organisations, we were really pleased to hear that the influential medical journal 'Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin' has issued an editorial calling for an end to prescription charges in England.
Influential medical journal calls for end to prescription charges
The British Medical Association are also quoted in several places supporting an end to prescription charges too. This further demonstrates the widespread support for ending prescription charges for everyone with a long-term condition.
In an excerpt from its editorial, the journal comments that:
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This charge has been abolished in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, leaving patients in England alone in the UK in having to pay for their prescriptions, with no political will to change this anomaly. Why should patients in England be subject to this additional ‘tax’ on medicines, having already contributed to the NHS through general taxation?
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