Scottish patients can collect free prescriptions from today – leaving England as the only country in the UK still charging for them. English patients will be charged £7.40 for every item prescribed by a doctor – an increase of 20p – but Scotland today joins Wales and Northern Ireland in abolishing the charges. The move means that English patients are effectively subsiding free drugs for those living elsewhere in the UK. (Daily Mail)Friday 1 April 2011
From today, only the English have to pay for prescriptions (and no, that's not an April Fool's joke!)
Scottish patients can collect free prescriptions from today – leaving England as the only country in the UK still charging for them. English patients will be charged £7.40 for every item prescribed by a doctor – an increase of 20p – but Scotland today joins Wales and Northern Ireland in abolishing the charges. The move means that English patients are effectively subsiding free drugs for those living elsewhere in the UK. (Daily Mail)