Granny23 - do you have a 'Pharmacy First' scheme in your area? Check with your local chemist and you can get certain remedies free of charge (if you no longer pay for percriptions, ie. Age 60 and over). Our area has the scheme and I have obtained my hayfever tablets, eye drops and olive oil ear drops in the last few months). I think the scheme is to aleviate some trivial GP visits (although I would never visit the GP for hayfever, it is nice to not have to pay). The Pharmacy have a list of medications/conditions they can provide for.
Frank Field, Labour Peer has died, aged 81y.