>> Yup - big bureaucratic mess to take a fee for about 10% of prescriptions -
>> inefficient waste.
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>> Is more efficient to use general taxation to pay for the NHS.
My daughter's father in law a recently retired GP in Wales makes exactly the same point.
Not just taking the fee but chasing those alleged to have failed to pay. Clients presenting with a penalty notice from the NHS Business Services Authority alleging that items should have been paid for is a regular thing when doing general advice.
The manifold options on the back of the prescription form are almost set up to bamboozle those who are neither overly literate or overly worldly. I had one cam to me at a drop in pursued for saying she was on means tested ESA. In fact, following a change, she'd had to move to Universal Credit but still got the same money. Been on ESA for years and there was actually NO BOX on the form for Universal Credit.
Sorted in five minutes but she'd struggled to get past first base; press 1 for this. 2 for that etc.
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