Is limiting rather than abolishing prescription charges the answer?

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The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 276 No 7394 p388-389
1 April 2006

Agenda for 2006

Is limiting rather than abolishing prescription charges the answer?
The annual review of prescription charges has come around again and this week the charge in England increases to £6.65. This is happening against a background of a Health Select Committee inquiry into NHS charges. Ellen Schafheutle took part in the consultations
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Ellen Schafheutle, PhD, MRPharmS, is a research fellow at the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Manchester

Prescription

One way of maintaining revenue and having a cost barrier against inappropriate use would be to lower the prescription charge to £1 or £2 per item and to make a larger proportion of the population liable to pay

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