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I think free prescriptions for chronic conditions is a good thing. Does it apply to all prescriptions for such patients or only for medications related to that chronic condition and maybe acute conditions caused by the chronic one? Diabetes patients get free prescriptions at the moment.

Will prepay certificates still be available? That saves me hundreds a year.
Will they adjust the ages for free prescriptions? I am moving into the free bracket soon, what if the age is changed to "retired".
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I pity the poor GP's. Unlike patients or consultants who "specialise" on one condition or set of conditions so can know more about that condition the GP has to know about a whole host of signs and symptoms in multiple patients not all of whom are especially helpful. They have to know about all the possible drug interactions and side effects, eg one of my drugs interacts with grapefruit (juice) so he had to tell me about that. (Mind you I do read the data sheet before taking any drug, so should we all.)