{"title":"Prescription charge controversies in England","authors":"Angela Dowden","doi":"10.1002/psb.2063","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"While prescribed medicines are free for all in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, patients in England who are not exempt still need to pay prescription charges. But in the current cost‐of‐living crisis, is the present system fair and might it actually represent a false economy for the NHS?","PeriodicalId":88184,"journal":{"name":"The Prescriber","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Prescriber","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psb.2063","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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While prescribed medicines are free for all in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, patients in England who are not exempt still need to pay prescription charges. But in the current cost‐of‐living crisis, is the present system fair and might it actually represent a false economy for the NHS?