Paying for prescription.

ethan

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Has anybody else ever got themselves in to a situation not of their own making regarding the prescribing of their meds which doesnt make any sense?

I went to see my GP a number of years ago and explained I was unable to afford to pay for my prescription. I told him I tried to get the consultant to provide me with an exemption certificate but was refused on the grounds the diagnosis was as yet unconfirmed. Ten years later it is still unconfirmed , I am still being prescribed the drugs/treatment and I still have to pay.

The peculiar thing about all of this is the GP agreed to give me double dosages on amounts for some items and not others rendering the prescribing a waste of time since I would still have to go out and buy these items on a monthly basis without there being any saving on cost?
 
Coud you not get a prepayment prescription card? a 12-month PPC £104.00, which may be cheaper than paying for each individual prescription.
 
I do that now but at the time I couldnt afford it. I am entitled to the exemption cert on the grounds I meet the conditions though and have a mind to press them for it again. The Doctors prescribing logic at the time didn't make any sense and today still doesn't make any sense.
 
Please excuse my ignorance but aren't prescriptions only around £8? Last time I had one it was £7.44. Affordable if you are working, if you don't / can't work then aren't you exempt anyway? How can anyone not afford a prescription?! This isn't a dig, as mentioned, forgive my ignorance I'm just trying to understand the situation.
 
Each item on the prescription has the fee attached, so if you've got 5 items on the prescription it could be over £40, hence prepaid certificates if you have an average of just one item a month.
 
I'm sure this topic's been covered not so long back. I have to take quite a few drugs related to my heart failure, I have 8 items in total on my repeat prescription (though I don't require all of them every month) One of the drugs is deemed to expensive for my GP so I have to collect that from hospital. Paying full cost would be close to £70. I have used the PPC method for years, you don't even have to pay for a years worth in one hit, there is an option to pay for just 3 months. 3 month PPC costs £29.10. And 12 month PPC costs £104.00. I think the full cost the most expensive medication I take is over £100 on it's own, so it seems a bargain really. A lot of commonly prescribed drugs are actually cheaper to buy over the counter than the £8.40 for a prescription, though that is offset but some of them being scarily expensive.
 
Uther said:
My wife needs around 20 different medications a month to stay alive. Thank **** for pre payment certificates.
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I think they are marvelous, my point being is at such good value there is no way anyone with the ability to pay such a small sum of money should get free prescriptions "except" or not.
 
ethan said:
Has anybody else ever got themselves in to a situation not of their own making regarding the prescribing of their meds which doesnt make any sense?

I went to see my GP a number of years ago and explained I was unable to afford to pay for my prescription. I told him I tried to get the consultant to provide me with an exemption certificate but was refused on the grounds the diagnosis was as yet unconfirmed. Ten years later it is still unconfirmed , I am still being prescribed the drugs/treatment and I still have to pay.

The peculiar thing about all of this is the GP agreed to give me double dosages on amounts for some items and not others rendering the prescribing a waste of time since I would still have to go out and buy these items on a monthly basis without there being any saving on cost?
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So in short, you could pay, as you have done so for 10 years, you just didn't want to?
 
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