Originally Posted by stathan

How many more times does it have to be pointed out to the morons in the EDs that the Welsh have not been given free prescriptions!!

The Welsh get given a Health budget which is divvied up as they see fit to do so.

In this case the Welsh Assembley decided that £29m annually is allocated to free prescriptions for the 30% of the public who were not eligible to them before.

NOW I WILL TYPE THIS REALLY SLOWLY JUST FOR

THE THICKOS IN THE EDs...................


This means that there is £29m annually less to spend on other areas of the Welsh Health service because it has been allocated to prescriptions which results in longer waiting lists and more deaths due these delays in almost every clinical field than in England even though Wales has a much smaller population.

Personally I would rather pay for a handful of antibiotics once in a blue moon than have to wait several years for a simple operation as I just have whilst looking at much smaller waiting lists for the same operation in England.


Therefore it must surely be obvious even for the hard of thinking in the ED party that the English can have free prescriptions but only if the English NHS decide to put money into the prescription give away and cut money given to other areas of the English NHS, they prefer not to do so at present and provide smaller operation waiting lists compared to Wales as a result.


I'll swap English waiting times for Welsh waiting times in an instant in exchange for paying for prescriptions, I'd advise you to carry on doing the same!

THE ENGLISH DEMOCRATS....... demonstrating their tenuous grip on simple economics!!!