An increase in NHS prescription charges in England of 25p to £7.65 has come into effect.
Health Minister Simon Burns outlined the changes earlier this year, and the government says exemptions mean 90% of prescription items are dispensed free.
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society campaigned for a freeze and says the rises are completely unacceptable.
By KIM BRISCOE
Thursday, March 29, 2012
5.37 PM
The money includes nearly £10m for Norfolk and £2.6m for Great Yarmouth and Waveney to be spent on ensuring that existing help, such as prevention services and crisis responses services, is not axed due to the significant pressures on county halls.
Another £2.6m will be ploughed into helping people get people back to fitness once they leave hospital and it will mean the Norfolk First Support, Swifts and Night Owls services can continue, although there is scope to combine these with NHS re-ablement services and to make efficiencies.
An increasingly influential advocate for older people is emerging from an unlikely direction: the billion-pound business that is synonymous with leisured middle-class retirement.
Ros Altmann is director-general of the Saga Group. She has been recruited specifically to be “the voice of the over-50s” and the past fortnight has been typically busy for Altmann, commenting on, among other things,
