NHS minor ailments scheme

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Did anyone else know this even existed?

Apparently, if you register with your local pharmacy, you can get children's or pensioners medications for free. Just walk in and you can pick up a range of medicines to deal with minor ailments such as coughs, colds, eczema, things like that.

The NHS have never really advertised it. I'm not surprised, I dread to think how much this could potentially cost.
 
Oh good, more opportunity for impatient people to cure their minor issues with expensive medicine when waiting 24 hours will achieve the same result with no build up of resistance or cost to the taxpayer :(
 
http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Pharmacy/Pages/Commonconditions.aspx

Minor ailment services
Some pharmacies run a minor ailment service, which means they can supply medicines for certain conditions on the NHS.

If your pharmacy runs a minor ailment service for eczema, for example, it means your pharmacist can supply medicines for this condition and you'll only pay the standard prescription charge. If you're exempt from paying prescription charges – for example, because you're over 60 – you won't pay for the medicine at all.
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Seen this doing the rounds on facebook. On paper, it's a great scheme. Though how many people are going to be going after calpol / paracetomol and ofcourse other medicines. Just because they can. If you really need those flu capsules for your little one, or a bottle of calpol or whatever. It only costs a couple of quid, there's a finite ammount of money in our NHS, there's no need to claw at it just because it's free. That money could be spent elsewhere, on reasearch.. Or expensive drugs for cancer patients. Leave this scheme for the people that really need it, those on the breadline etc etc.
 
Just what I was thinking.

If you can't afford to spend 40p on paracetomol or a couple of quid on little jonnys calpol, then maybe you should consider reducing your outgoings (if a quick pain killing fix is really what you think you need)

Surely the money spent of this rubbish would be better directed at things like real disease/condition solutions.

And is this actually controlled in any way. Whats to stop our local scrotes going and getting a different generic pain killer, eye drops, wart treatment medication every week, then selling it on ?
 
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KiwiTaff said:
Seen this doing the rounds on facebook. On paper, it's a great scheme. Though how many people are going to be going after calpol / paracetomol and ofcourse other medicines. Just because they can. If you really need those flu capsules for your little one, or a bottle of calpol or whatever. It only costs a couple of quid, there's a finite ammount of money in our NHS, there's no need to claw at it just because it's free. That money could be spent elsewhere, on reasearch.. Or expensive drugs for cancer patients. Leave this scheme for the people that really need it, those on the breadline etc etc.
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We are not an advanced society/civilisation with the larger number of people capable of seeing the bigger picture and working towards a better life for everyone - any such scheme is doomed to failure.
 
People are so negative on this forum. Honestly, where is the trust? Does anyone here really think that free Calpol or cream for eczema is going to turn insatiable parents into a frenzied mob that drains the NHS of all its money?
 
Edrof said:
People are so negative on this forum. Honestly, where is the trust? Does anyone here really think that free Calpol or cream for eczema is going to turn insatiable parents into a frenzied mob that drains the NHS of all its money?
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You won't be saying that when the 'Black-market' in haemorrhoid cream kicks off. That will get everyone sitting up and taking notice...;):)
 
robfosters said:
Did anyone else know this even existed?

Apparently, if you register with your local pharmacy, you can get children's or pensioners medications for free. Just walk in and you can pick up a range of medicines to deal with minor ailments such as coughs, colds, eczema, things like that.

The NHS have never really advertised it. I'm not surprised, I dread to think how much this could potentially cost.
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probably a lot less than people making doctors appointments every few weeks then getting the prescriptions then going to the pharmacy and getting them

doctors time = way more expensive than some cheap generic meds.
 
Heliospherez said:
Just what I was thinking.

If you can't afford to spend 40p on paracetomol or a couple of quid on little jonnys calpol, then maybe you should consider reducing your outgoings (if a quick pain killing fix is really what you think you need)

Surely the money spent of this rubbish would be better directed at things like real disease/condition solutions.

And is this actually controlled in any way. Whats to stop our local scrotes going and getting a different generic pain killer, eye drops, wart treatment medication every week, then selling it on ?
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but if you got your 40p paracetamol thorugh this scheme you's pay what 12 quid perscription charge?
 
Redgie said:
Oh good, more opportunity for impatient people to cure their minor issues with expensive medicine when waiting 24 hours will achieve the same result with no build up of resistance or cost to the taxpayer :(
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Build up of resistance... what on earth are you talking about? They aren't giving out antibiotics, and children and pensioners get prescriptions for free anyway so it doesn't cost the taxpayer anything, it actually saves the taxpayer a doctors appointment for the sake of a 20p packet of paracetamol.
 
So people can get the things they need to look after their dependents irrespective of their actual income - sounds rather good to me. Also will reduce the amount of time GPs spend dishing out things that could be easily obtained this way. Therefore, it will save money most likely.
 
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