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NHS Prescriptions - Season Tickets
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I just saw on TV you can buy a season ticket for your prescriptions rather then pay £6.50p a time for each medicine.
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This isn't a new thing.
It costs £90.40 for a year, which if you get a lot of medication is a massive saving. Of course it costs the NHS millions a year to sell medications at such a subsidised rate but I completely agree with the scheme.
And its actually £6.40 for a prescription, not £6.50
Not sure if i could afford to fork out £90.40 though in one go if i wasnt exempt.
Your doctor cannot charge you for a private prescription if its for everyday things that you need like antibiotics, pain releif etc etc.
So if you know you are gonna need a prescription check with the pharmacy as to wether it will be cheaper getting a private prescription.
So whats a private prescription? Whats the difference from a normal one?
the normal one is on a green paper (i think), the example they showed was like a letter. The doctor writes your name, address etc etc and underneath writes the prescription.
just ask the doc for a private prescription and he has to give you it and he cant charge.
Also what they said was something about when you are buying stuff over the counter never buy the brand names without checking the cheaper ones. They did an example of buying several named brands of medicine against not so well know ones. Both medicines work the same and would treat you exactly like the brand names and I beleive there was about twenty quid difference in price. The doctor said when you go to the chemist ask them what the 'generic' equivalent is (I think thats how you spell it), the pharmasist should tell you the cheaper version.
He can refuse. A GP doesn't have to prescribe you anything if they don't want to. It is up to them.
It makes no difference for me, i just wondered what the difference is. For what reason would they give you a private one?
Other than it being on a different bit of paper whats the difference?
Maybe i worded that wrong. If you need a prescription and your doctor normally gives you a normal prescription and you find out that the product you need is cheaper by private prescription then you can ask for a private prescription and he cannot charge you for that facility.
Tweety, i dunno about what exactly s the difference.....apart from you can get it cheaper smetimes.
Usually private prescriptions are for items that are not available at a subsidised rate on the NHS. There are some drugs which cannot be prescribed on the NHS and in order to obtain them you need what is called a private prescription.
There are so few items that cost less that the cost of a prescription that if you were to ask your GP for a private prescription for most items you would end up paying more if you get what I mean.
Ah ok
Now the Doctor on This Morning reckoned many could be bought cheaper
Are the pink ones you get froma dentist private ones? Or just different bits of paper?
Sorry i'm being a pain now.
i'm think they're just normal ones, and that the colour is to show a prescription from somewhere other than your doctor.
like if you get a prescription from a hospital it's often a different colour, and when i used to see the psychiatrist, i had orange prescription forms.
about these season ticket type things - is it possible to get one for less than a year? say for a 6 month period?
Yeah you can get them for 4 months for about £30. However, you need to be getting at least five items on prescription at a time I think.
hmm. it's cause the lady i work with gets really bad hayfever, and has to get pills + eye drops + nose spray from about april til the end of summer, which is like £20 a month. but the rest of the year she's dead healthy and has nothing.
i shall encourage her to develop a couple more complaints
I have been on the This Morning website trying to find info out, but for some reason cant find what im looking for, even though they said info would be on there.
Loads of info there
link is stuffed
PS. You need to take the first set of http out though!
One of the reasons being that this helps subside the more expensive items. Basically, if we all just paid the lowest price then prescription charges would increase...
Personally, I am also exempt. Gotta love thyroxine...
As MoK pointed out, the higher prices for some items subsidises more expensive ones which are sold 'at loss'. I think this is fair, because in the course of your lifetime you're likely to both underpay and overpay, so it'll tend to even out in the end. I always ask the pharmacist if the item I've been prescribed is available over the counter without prescription though my GP will usually advise me to buy my own if he knows that it is.
Same reason as me, i think it sucks that if its overactive people have to pay though.
Same here.
Nah, screw them, they subsidise me
Seriously there are too many people who don't have our kind of exemption, including diabetics which I've always thought strange...
BTW Even without the thyroid you would still be exempt, or is your little one a year old yet?
I am actually exempt for three reasons at the mo lol, thyroid, new mummy & tax credit thing.:D
Git that one nicely sewn up then, haven't you.
Makes filling in the exemption part of a prescription fun though...
Heh yup, at the moment i tick either maternity exemption or medical, its easier than the other one, plus i am not sure what it comes under lol.
How long you been diagnosed btw?
I have one friend in particular that thinks more money paid for an intem is always a sign it must be better