‘Outdated, illogical and unfair’: the true cost of prescription charges As increasing numbers of prescription medicines are not dispensed to the patients who need them, pharmacists warn that charging patients for prescriptions during the cost of living crisis could reverse efforts to close health inequalities.
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Pharmacist Ade Williams is very familiar with the hard choices that many patients must make when faced with the cost of their prescriptions.
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Last updated 17 October 2023 20:46