Scotland plans to abolish prescription charges

Scotland plans to axe prescription charges

Extract from Telegraph article:

"The public services ''apartheid" between England and Scotland has widened again as Scottish ministers pledged to abolish all prescription charges north of the border.

Your view: Should English taxpayers subsidise Scottish health care? While millions of patients in England will still be expected to pay for vital medication, prescriptions in Scotland will be available free of charge within four years. The move was cited as the starkest example yet of the "unfairness" of the current funding arrangement, with English taxpayers forced to pay towards improvements to health care and education available only in Scotland. Scottish residents already have access to free eye care and dental check ups, free personal care for the elderly, extra central heating grants and a number of drugs deemed "too costly" for the National Health Service in England and Wales. As a result of plans announced earlier this summer, Scottish students will receive a free university education and pupils in the early years of primary school could soon be taught in class sizes as small as 18." Unfortunately, most prescription drugs are far from 'vital', as the article mistakenly implies. - Overwhelmingly, prescribed drugs do far, far more harm than good. - See I've been warning for years about prescribed drugs Scotland already has the highest obesity in Europe, and free prescription drugs are likely to increase obesity still further, since so many of the drugs cause/worsen obesity because of sodium retention and water retention. See my website http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/.html (The site does not sell anything and has no banners or sponsors or adverts - just helpful information.) vulnerable groups How to Lose weight! Children and Obesity Read my Mensa article on Obesity and the Salt Connection See Sodium in foods and Associated health conditions and http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/story.html - my 'political' page I can be contacted via my website if you need my further help. My help is free.