£26 for the morning-after pill. WTF is that all about?

[ChocolateMoose]

Is it just me who sees that as a deliberate decision to make 'irresponsible' women to pay for contraceptive failures or mistakes? What about those who can't afford to have another baby, but for whom that money was going to pay for food and heating?

Now adding righteous indignation on top of my previous grumpiness at having to go and get the damn thing in the first place.

That's far too expensive. It should definitely be subsidised and I agree with you OP, it does seem to be aiming to make "irresponsible" women pay for their mistakes/contraceptive failures.

I've taken it twice in my life and never been asked to pay. I just attended A&E and got given it.

It's only been available to buy in a chemist quite recently though hasn't it? I've taken it 3 times, all before you could buy it and had to go via the gp.

the wholesale/rrp costs are what they are, the chemist is a business, this is why the NHS is so important and people just don't realise how much they receive and take for granted they will continue to receive.

Are there not other "over the counter" medicines which could be priced much higher as well though?

I think you can get it free in a pharmacy if it's a pharmacy which has one of the pharmacists which are allowed to prescribe certain drugs. Or does it very by area?

I've definitely got it free from a pharmacy before anyway.