After my tax credit exemption for prescription charges expired some little while ago I decided it was time to get a prescription prepayment certificate from the NHS. I didn't have the web address to hand so I did a little searching on google and found this. If you live in England, even somewhere like North East England, prescriptions cost as follows.
https://www.ppa.org.uk/ppa/ppcdd/patient.do
"The current cost is:
£28.25 for a 3-month PPC; and
£104.00 for a 12-month PPC."
If you live in Scotland, paying the same income tax, national insurance, VAT etc as those in England then prescriptions cost rather less, will cost less again from April 2010 and from April 2011 will cost nothing at all. Fair? I think not.
http://www.psd.scot.nhs.uk/doctors/prepayment-certificates.html#purchase
"How much does a PPC cost?
4 month PPC costs £13.00
12 month PPC costs £38.00"
Our politicians should make it the same for all and stop subsidising a minority of the population. The North East and other regions of England are just as impoverished as Scotland so there is no social reason to do so; it's just buying votes north of the border.
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