>> What's not payed for isn't valued. Huge amounts of drugs are wasted by those who
>> don't pay for them at the moment - estimated waste is £300 million per year.
There's no doubt that huge quantities of drugs go to waste from courses that are not finished. Just found some penicillin from when I had a dose of sinusitis in the spring. Free as I'm over 60.
Is there any evidence that people who pay for their prescriptions are more careful about not wasting them?
There is anecdotal (at least) evidence that people obliged to pay all but £10/item are limiting them selves to those perceived to matter most. The earnings limit at which people on Universal Credit cease to get free prescriptions is set cruelly low.
Knowledge and promotion of the prepayment 'season ticket' is appallingly low. I had one before 60 as, with a regular monthly prescription, I only needed the odd couple of extras for antibiotics or a recurrence of back pain and I was winning.
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