free NHS Prescriptions whilst at uni?

im earning too much

They're free for everyone in Wales / Scotland, just not England. How is that fair?

Course its fair - you get better other stuff - you have decided to spend your money somewhere else.

Theres loads of things that go on in england that dont go on in wales/scotland - for example the further maths

Theres just loads. The funding gap between school in wales and schools in england is absurd - its astronomical

It's different.

We all pay for the NHS, yet while the NHS pays for prescriptions in Wales, it doesn't in England. THAT is what isn't fair.

Check this.

do you know how lucky you are to even get the chance to see a doctor for free?

They're free for everyone in Wales / Scotland, just not England. How is that fair?



Some of the most common drugs are less than £7.20, like inhalers.


I work in a Rowlands haha

My Doctor is giving me a super-prescription that should last me for the entirity of my first year and I've been cramming dentist/orthodontist/opticians etc in this week so officially I'm still 'in full time education' and don't have to pay for most things So I got a replacement retainer, dental check-up, eye test and reduced price frames and lenses along with a year's supply of medication

They're not free for everyone in Scotland.

You should be paying £4 per prescription.

I've never had a free prescription because until I was 19 I hadn't ever needed a prescription for anything. ******* asthma.

Oh, haha woops! does that include the pill though? Thats pretty much the only prescription i've had since uni, i think ... Im still 18 tho anyway so i think im right in saying i can still get them for free until im 19. but thats only a month away! lol

I spoke to a friend and she said you don't have to pay you should have shown them your medical card is this right?

Can't you apply for a HC2 certificate? It exempts you while you are in full time education i.e uni

Oh, haha woops! does that include the pill though? Thats pretty much the only prescription i've had since uni, i think ... Im still 18 tho anyway so i think im right in saying i can still get them for free until im 19. but thats only a month away! lol

yeah but with the cost to fly to greece, and sorting that all out, easier to pop along, 15- 20 test, your fine, or you need new glasses, its just easier

and i didn't know that

You can combine it with sunbathing
If you mean that, every EU national is entitled to all the rights local nationals enjoy, as far as doctors, medicine and hospitalization are concerned. There's only one exception to protect countries with a better public health system; in order to be entitled to medication and examination as a result of an illness/problem existent for some time before one goes to that country (like asthma or sth - there's a word in English for such illnesses which I can't recall at the moment), you have to be resident or intend to stay there some months (usually 6, which is the case in the UK). So an elderly woman from, say, Bulgaria won't come to the UK to treat her vein-problem