This petition was submitted during the 2015 to 2017 Parliament
Rejected petition Make prescriptions free to all people with a lifetime illness.
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Prescriptions should not have to be paid for by someone with a lifetime illness. At the current rate of £8.40 per item, paying this for just 30 years would cost the patient £3,024. In many instances people have more than one item this doubling or even trebling this cost to £9,072.
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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/174005
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