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The price hike from £9.65 to £9.90 per item from today has been described as a ‘tax on the working poor’ by commentators.
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The price hike from £9.65 to £9.90 per item from today has been described as a ‘tax on the working poor’ by commentators.
Updated: April 1, 2021, 6:52 am A single prescription item will cost £10.15 in 2025. it has been estimated (Anthony Devlin/PA) Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Price hikes in prescription charges have been dubbed a “tax on health” by a group of charities as new figures reveal that the cost of a single prescription could be more than £10 in just four years. Some patients are being forced to choose between everyda...
It comes as a group of charities warned over prescription price hikes.
Updated: April 1, 2021, 10:40 am Michelle Griffin takes five types of medication each day (Handout/PA) Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A patient has described how she was forced to delay paying her car tax because of costly medication prescriptions. Michelle Griffin takes five different forms of medication a day after she was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease four years ago. The 50-year-old from Suffolk said that ...
Concerns have been raised that some patients are being forced to chose between food and medicine.