NHS prescription charge

[MrTurtleLikesKisses]

I have had hyperthyroidism for 13 years. I picked up my prescription yesterday and paid the £8.60 prescription charge for my 30 tablets (annoyingly, if I had hypothyroidism, my medication would be free ).
Anyway, it suddenly struck me that £8.60 is a lot for a drug that I know has been around for a long time, so I looked online. Sure enough, it looks like it's available to buy, without a prescription, from abroad for a heck of a lot cheaper than £8.60 for 30.
So, have I been a mug all these years? Should I just buy it online? Or should I suck it up and pay the prescription charge like everyone else?

I worked in finance for the NHS looking at prescriptions submitted from pharmacies
You are truly amazing, you know everything just from looking at some figures.

I have never read such crap in all my life.

Exactly madamginger - it's not exactly lining our pockets with gold is it?

Exactly madamginger - it's not exactly lining our pockets with gold is it
Don't let the office nerd (khajiit13) get you down.

Thank you PersianCatLady (I am a fellow Persian owner!) - we try our absolute best every day - I have a fantastic team of staff, but it is so hard at the moment and I don't see it getting any better.

The DH want 3000 pharmacies to close and they will keep beating us until they get what they want...

Thank you PersianCatLady (I am a fellow Persian owner!)
I am liking you more and more with every post.

We have a very elderly Ginger Ninja with a bad haircut and a loud voice - he fits in well with children!

Day 1 buy a 1 month prepaid script for £10. 40 (I think it's about that much), fill 1 month order.
Day 26 ask for next script and collect from pharmacy.
Day 57 prepay next month and collect meds.
Day 83 collect next script.

Continue in this way. Each month prepay collect 2 scripts worth. That comes out at a little over £60.
A little organisation can save you some money.

The Ginger Ninja looks like a lovely cat.

LittleDrummerGirl
The PPC doesn't work in the way you are explaining.

Sorry pressed send too soon.

You can't just pay £10.40 as a one off payment for a month's worth of prescriptions.

A PPC costs £29.10 for 3 months or £104 for a year.

You can pay the £104 over 10 monthly payments of £10.40 (like council tax).

I know that you are trying to be helpful with your idea but I don't think that you understand how the scheme works.

Do you not think that the Government have made sure that people can't abuse an already generous scheme by using ideas like yours?

Going back a bit. Your NHS GP can charge you foe things not provided by the NHS (such as holiday vaccinations and passport signing) But cannot provide private treatment/prescriptions to you if they could provde the treatment on the NHS,

A warning to people who use or want to use Phamacy2u
www.pharmaceutical-journal.com/news-and-analysis/pharmacy2u-fined-130000-for-selling-patient-data/20069579.article

I don't use the EPS scheme as I have seen the way Boots have fucked up OH prescriptions and is not convenient to me anyway, but if I did I would not be using this company

I was going by a pp who said monthly prepayment. I've never had to use them though so wouldn't know that.
That'll teach me not to check.
In that case ask your gp for 56 day prescribing. That should help.