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Peter Lapsley: Unfairer charges

Posted on May 2, 2012 by BMJ

They’ve done it again! While prescription charges were abolished in Wales in 2007, Northern Ireland in 2010, and Scotland in 2011, the Department of Health in England increased them from £7.40 to £7.65 from 1 April this year. To put that into more graphic context, anyone required to pay the charges would have to find […]

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