The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 268 No 7203 p861-867
22 June 2002

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Prescription charges in the news for over 50 years

Prescription charges, highlighted in The Journal last week (p833), have always been in the public eye.

This photograph was sent in by Michael Munro, MRPharmS. It shows pharmacy students from the Merchant Venturers' College, Bristol, drawing attention to the introduction of the one shilling prescription charge during Bristol University’s rag week in 1952. At the counter on the back of the float are Pamela Munro (née Robinson) and John Davies