Originally Posted by Britannist

I am not at all happy about a situation coming about whereby people in England who live on the border with Wales are (allegedly) being stopped from claiming free prescriptions in chemists just over the border in Wales where prescriptions do not cost anything (because they have a doctor in England and live in England). This sort of division is not what a United Kingdom should be all about. It is also unfair on English people. Hospitals in England but close to the border with Wales are, of course, not refusing to take patients from just across the border in Wales.