Re: £7.65 now for a prescription?!
This is exactly it. The NHS in Wales is generally accepted as being crap. Service to patients is deteriorating. The work that the medical staff do is not in question but waiting times and delays are on the rise. Poor inter-departmental communication means files and information goes missing. Nobody takes ownership of issues. I don't think it's a coincidence that this has occurred for roughly the same amount of time that we've had free prescriptions.
Don't get me wrong, it's very helpful and it means those people who may have previously been unable to afford prescriptions now getting the treatment they deserve. But we pay for it in other ways.
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