England is now the only part of The UK that still has prescriptions charges.

On the day that they are abolished in Scotland (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12928485) they have risen 20p in England.

Good on Scotland? Or a popularist measure on their behalf which will have to be paid from somewhere else?

My sister was rushed to hospital a few weeks ago down south. Two days ago she received a bill from the hospital for pain relief that they had to give her. This was not a private hospital (although her husband later rushed her to one, which saved her life) but a national health one and she is UK born, bred, resident and tax payers.

Is this part of the new prescription charges, can we expect to have bills now from the hospitals?

whats wrong with paying for the item you use,

Nothing if it was fair. I must have had half a dozen prescriptions where the pharmacist has said I can buy the same item off the shelf for less.

Its probably a necessary service in Scotland, with their diet and the amount they drink, they couldn't afford to buy the Statins they need to keep their cholesterol levels down.

we should make everyone pay for GP so we dont have a 2 week waiting list for scrubbers getting the contraceptive pill or antidepression or fatty pill type drugs

would you like to see your GP same day if you pay £10 or wait 2 weeks for a appointment

we should make everyone for GP so we dont have a 2 week waiting list for scrubbers getting the contraceptive pill or antidepression or fatty pill type drugs


Idiot alert :loopy:

Idiot alert :loopy:

very true now that you have join

Was listening to a similar conversation on the radio, and someone said why not have a standard rate of about £2 for everyone ? - unemployed as well as employed.

Seemed to be quite a fair assessment that.

if we charge £10 the charges will pay for the GP times and we can cut a bit more off the goverment bill

Nothing if it was fair. I must have had half a dozen prescriptions where the pharmacist has said I can buy the same item off the shelf for less.

Agreed. Happens to me all the time. I get antihistamines at a fraction of the price over the counter, so there's clearly something amiss here with the pricing.

we should make everyone pay for GP so we dont have a 2 week waiting list for scrubbers getting the contraceptive pill or antidepression or fatty pill type drugs

would you like to see your GP same day if you pay £10 or wait 2 weeks for a appointment

So according to you Danny11 (assume that is your IQ), anyone getting the contraceptive pill is a scrubber? & you can only get depressed if you are a scrubber. Oh & if your are overweight you are also a scrubber. You my friend are an idiot & a very good one at that :loopy:

My sister was rushed to hospital a few weeks ago down south. Two days ago she received a bill from the hospital for pain relief that they had to give her. This was not a private hospital (although her husband later rushed her to one, which saved her life) but a national health one and she is UK born, bred, resident and tax payers.

Is this part of the new prescription charges, can we expect to have bills now from the hospitals?

Does she normally pay for her prescriptons?

My sister was rushed to hospital a few weeks ago down south. Two days ago she received a bill from the hospital for pain relief that they had to give her. This was not a private hospital (although her husband later rushed her to one, which saved her life) but a national health one and she is UK born, bred, resident and tax payers.

Is this part of the new prescription charges, can we expect to have bills now from the hospitals?

that doesn't sound right.

i was rushed into A&E and spent two weeks on all kind of pills and morphene, and was given a huge bag of painkillers when i was discharged. i was never billed for any of it, and i pay for all my prescriptions from the GP.

that doesn't sound right.

i was rushed into A&E and spent two weeks on all kind of pills and morphene, and was given a huge bag of painkillers when i was discharged. i was never billed for any of it, and i pay for all my prescriptions from the GP.

yeah, sounds strange. never heard of anyone being charged for medication they got while in hospital. do they have private wings in NHS hospitals? could that be it? but, then again., would they have a private A&E?

if we charge £10 the charges will pay for the GP times and we can cut a bit more off the goverment bill
Why not make it a grand, and then the sick and poor can die quietly at home?

Don't be too quick to bemoan the charge, admittedly it's a lot in England, and although yeah on the surface of it, here in Scotland, it seems great, where the hell is all the money going to come from now that the script money isn't going back into the NHS? I think a much better system would be everyone paying a much smaller amount.

Why not make it a grand, and then the sick and poor can die quietly at home?

Great idea thousand of the poor dole scurgers die, the goverment has less to pay out , we might not have to borrow as much next month

Great idea thousand of the poor dole scurgers die, the goverment has less to pay out
... and the old. They're always at the Doctors. I know some went to war and that, but that was years ago. Make em pay, and if they can't they can do one. I'm sick and tired of fixing poorly people on NHS money.

When will this country be great again, like it was after WW1? Those men lost legs, and breathed in mustard gas, and came home to live with terrible injuries that ruined their lives. They had the decency to die quietly without taking good honest tax money.

if we charge £10 the charges will pay for the GP times and we can cut a bit more off the goverment bill

If we pay anything its an end to "free at the point of need" and in effect a end to the NHS.

If we pay anything its an end to "free at the point of need" and in effect a end to the NHS.

why should hard working taxpayer pay for the dole scrungers, if the gp are self funding we can pay less tax, if a good % of lazy dole scrungers die we can pay less tax, this way we can more then afford to pay GP for their services

why should hard working taxpayer pay for the dole scrungers, if the gp are self funding we can pay less tax, if a good % of lazy dole scrungers die we can pay less tax, this way we can more then afford to pay GP for their services

Keep practicing. (http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/Assets/troller.jpg)

if a good % of lazy dole scrungers die we can pay less tax, this way we can more then afford to pay GP for their services
... and babies. If people are on the dole, they shouldn't be allowed to give birth on the NHS. Have it at home with some paracetomol and hot water, like people used to do in the good old days. Never did them any harm.

If we pay anything its an end to "free at the point of need" and in effect an end to the NHS.That's over-dramatising a bit, don't you think?

What would you rather do to solve the dimishing-tax-income-vs-spiralling-health-costs dilemma?

A small incidental charge (e.g. £2) everytime you need the service now?

Or a slightly larger incidental charge (e.g. £3) taken every month whether you need the service or not eventually?

Look up e.g. the CSG in France, corresponding to (and eventually brought in as-) the second solution to the same problem. Which isn't actually a solution at all, since the funding gap is still as large today, years after the CSG kicked in.

Even I, resident in the UK for years now, pay it without any form of say or recourse: it's automatically taken from my French accounts, the bank has no say in the matter.

... and babies. If people are on the dole, they shouldn't be allowed to give birth on the NHS. Have it at home with some paracetomol and hot water, like people used to do in the good old days. Never did them any harm.

if they cant afford to bring up a baby, Everyone should be injected until proven they can afford to support the baby and not relay on state benefit,

if they cant afford to bring up a baby, Everyone should be injected until proven they can afford to support the baby and not relay on state benefit,


Not bad, forced sterilisation gets you a 3/10 on the troll ratings. keep it up :hihi:

Not bad, forced sterilisation gets you a 3/10 on the troll ratings. keep it up :hihi:
And all while promoting a (his?) local business in his sig too. Marketing fail.

We have always been paying for Scotlands health service....

Scotland wants to be independant, yet they can't survive without us paying for their health service...

makes me lol

Scotland, no wonder they like it. We pay and they still vote in our parliament.
If they had to pay their own way they would soon cry.

And all while promoting a (his?) local business in his sig too. Marketing fail.

He does not work, he is a scrounger, read his other posts, bit of a numpty :loopy:

Another 25p rise today.