Some people in Monmouthshire are evidently up in arms as they have to pay £6.65 NHS prescription charges. They are registered with a doctor in Herefordshire, if however they were with one in Wales they would only be paying £3. From 2007 prescription charges are due to be abolished in Wales.
In Scotland, eye and dental check-ups will also be free next year.
You might ask yourself how this can be. Well, we no longer have one NHS we have separate ones, for Scotland, for Wales, for England. England of course gets the basic service, the Celtic regions the enhanced. What is even better for them is that it is English taxpayers who are providing the massive subsidies to finance them.
This is not likely to change as there is no one standing up for England. We are governed by a UK parliament that’s filled with MPs from the Scottish orientated Labour Party, the Scottish led LibDems and Conservatives who appear to be terrified of upsetting the Scots in case they get the sulks and break up the Union.
And, by the way, there are a couple of new breast cancer drugs that will be available in Scotland. England’s Scottish government however apparently has no plan to provide them to English patients.
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