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Blue Badges & Prescriptions

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+++DetEcTive+++ Report 25 Sep 2014 19:35

If, living in England, someone needs a constant supply of prescribed medication, and are not entitled to have them for free.........buy a Prescription Season Ticket.

http://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/1127.aspx
If you need more than 12 prescribed medicines each year, you could save money with a 12-month PPC.

You can also buy a three-month PPC, which will save you money if you need more than three prescribed medicines in three months.

The charge for a single prescribed medicine is £8.05, whereas a three-month PPC will cost you £29.10 and a 12-month PPC £104.00.

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BrianW

BrianW Report 25 Sep 2014 19:32

My daughter and BiL have thyroid and all free prescriptions.
It makes no sense.
Blue badges are a separate issue, unconnected.

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Sherwood (Kent); Jesson (London); Worboys (Herts)

Guinevere

Guinevere Report 25 Sep 2014 19:17

And diabetic people do not automatically get blue badges. They have to apply like everyone else and are subject to the same criteria.

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Lowestoft and North Suffolk, Monmouthshire, Breconshire, Somerset

Elizabeth2469049

Elizabeth2469049 Report 25 Sep 2014 19:16

There are some other uneven mixes -my daughter has to have thyroxin for low thyroid which is for life, and she does get any other prescriptions free. I'm very glad for her! but ??

Researching:
Dominy & Croom in Dorset, Rutherford & McElhatton in Northumberland. Dendy and Thorp

Guinevere

Guinevere Report 25 Sep 2014 19:15

At the time the NHS came into being diabetes was the only condition that required continuous medication to keep the sufferer alive, so it was made free. People would die without it.

Since then there have been many more conditions discovered and medications invented but the country just can't afford to make it all free - and it would be a brave government that made diabetes medicine subject to payment. It has been talked about but nobody dares.

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Lowestoft and North Suffolk, Monmouthshire, Breconshire, Somerset

Tenerife Sun

Tenerife Sun Report 25 Sep 2014 19:15

My ex is a diabetic and pays for his meds. He hasn't applied for a blue badge so I can't answer that one.

Researching:
Matthew and Jane Elwood who had my great great grandfather Francis Edward Elwood baptised in 1807 at Horsham Sussex. There is no sign of Matthew or Jane from this date and my great great grandfather was brought up as Francis Edward Elwood MITCHELL

JoyBoroAngel

JoyBoroAngel Report 25 Sep 2014 19:13

I have diabetes and I don't have a blue badge

but I do get free meds

Researching:
The birth of Middlesbrough

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+++DetEcTive+++ Report 25 Sep 2014 19:12

Are you sure about free medication for diabetics? As far as I'm aware son-i-l pays for all of his meds including needles.

Unless they are physically disabled, a diabetic is NOT entitled to a Blue Badge.

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PricklyHolly

PricklyHolly Report 25 Sep 2014 19:11

I don't know the answer but.......

You have a good point there Phyll.

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"If I don't see you through the week.........I will see you through the window". :o))

Phyll

Phyll Report 25 Sep 2014 19:03

Can anyone explain why people with Diabetes get blue badges and free prescription (on all medicines not just for diabetes) whilst people with asthma have to pay for all inhalers.
No nastiness intended just curious.
Phyll

Researching:
Newman, Pavey, Sinden from Sussex. Latham from Bucks & Herts

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