Prescription charges

Not a day of course but a month

Thank you for explaining that MaryEliza, I now understand your point and I agree. Some people really do need these medications and shouldn’t have to trawl around looking for them. As there hasn’t been a system put in place to enable multiple purchase then they should remain on prescription till there is.

OldMeg who is your post directed at? Who is the poster/s arguing alll day on the forum who should be organsing a simple delivery? Are you criticising the posters on here living with chronic pain who don’t want to have to make special arrangements to get their pain medication that people on other medication don’t have to make ? Come on OldMeg who are you having a pop at from your high horse?

And to be fair MesMop they will remain on prescription for those with chronic pain but I’m really shocked at the lack of understanding of some posters on here about the need for that.

I’m pleased to hear they will still be able to have them on prescription. It may be a “simple” painkiller but a very important first rung in the ladder. I see people daily struggling with pain and that is sad because there can be enormous relief just by using painkillers wisely. Too many patients are too stoic when it comes to pain, they suffer in silence and it really does have s detrimental impact on their quality of life. I would urge all those in pain to go to their go and keep going until they find the best course of treatment for them. Have a happy day everyone ?

I’m pleased to see that apparently people who need larger amounts of paracetamol will still be able to get them on prescription, there is definitely a need for that. However hopefully in future people like my mother, will not be able to get them on prescription because in her case she doesn’t need them. When her shoulder pain flares up she takes the cocodamol, but she doesn’t take it take daily. Mum has a large amount of tablets on repeat which she needs every day of her life, and obviously I want her to have them, but much as I love her very much, I don’t think she should be able to get paracetamol too just because ‘it’s free’ when in actual fact she rarely uses it and has in the past offered a box to me, saying ‘ I’ve got loads and I don’t need it, you take it’, needless to say I refuse! Perhaps she and other very old people don’t understand how strapped for cash the NHS is today.

Maryeliza54 you seem to have forgotten that this is a forum for discussion and opinion and your angry responses to some on here are unacceptable. I am living with chronic pain and also need paracetamol but I accept that it is cheep to buy and can get it anywhere from the corner shop to the chemist so I get on with it and and don’t abuse others who don’t need it. You have been quite rude to some of the posters I feel - my opinion and I’m allowed it as you are allowed yours but please be less angry in your responses.