Free prescriptions for students at uni

As far as I was aware that's just how the Welsh Assembly are choosing to spend their allocated money in that area?

To be fair, the majority of people that need prescriptions regularly don't pay for them anyway. A major exception to this is asthmatics ... I think they get a bit of a raw deal ... I think that if someone has asthma that needs steroid inhalers (plus the other medication that follows them) then they should be able to get medical exemption certificates.

I can tell you categorically you are wrong here. THere are many different types of chronic disease sufferers who get very little in way of help, and those that do often have to fill out dozens of forms.

If you get regular prescriptions you can buy a pre-paid year, quarter or month which is a fixed rate so can work out a LOT cheaper for some people (about £100 a year I seem to remember).

Simple solution ... just dont get ill. Stop your complaining. You might get ill enough to go to the Dr like once across the whole year unless you are chronically ill. There's nothing mroe annoying than ppl who run to the Drs for a cold or because they feel slightly ill.
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dont get ill....how can you just not get ill?!! what a stupid thing to say! some people have weak immune systems and get ill really easily because of other conditions they have.

Lol good call with the spain thing... I didnt mean dont get ill really it was an overstatement, but I have friends who run to the Drs when they are slightly under the weather and wonder why waiting lists are so long.

In terms of it covering optical/dental perscriptions Im not sure at all... check. I have to pay for my contact lenses despite having one but they're an extra expense, standard glasses lenses might be free. But thats because diabetes can effect eyes and I need more regular checks. In terms of dental I highly doubt it.

It is so not hard to get a prescription medication at university. Just put a tick in the "full time educatiion" box on the back of the form and. hey presto, drugs for free are yours. In my experiences no one actually asks for proof of anything. Just some advice

:O!! I live in Wales, and I can tell you categorically that the "english" do not subsidise anything like that!

:O!! I live in Wales, and I can tell you categorically that the "english" do not subsidise anything like that! The Welsh Assembly have a certain amount of money to spend on things like that - mostly from OUR taxes - and spend it on certain things which make life a bit easeir for people, such as cheaper prescriptions and free bus travel for OAPS. Just because the "english" government isn't quite as on the ball as the Welsh Assembly in certain things doesn't mean that you are automatically subsidising things that are better here.
Incidentally, if you go to uni in Wales, you don't have to pay top-up fees - I spose its the "english" who are paying for that, too, is it, rather than the Welsh Assembly having enough money to be able to make it easier for students?

I can tell you categorically you are wrong here. THere are many different types of chronic disease sufferers who get very little in way of help, and those that do often have to fill out dozens of forms.

Forgive me if I am being totally ludicrous here, but I went to the pharmacists the other day, with a prescription, ticked a box on the back to say I was or would be in full time education, handed it over, got my pills and walked out without paying a dime? I hope I am not fiddling or something, I just presumed this was the case? Or is it very different at university?