Patients declining prescriptions

Pharmacists have warned they are increasingly seeing patients in England declining to take vital medicines due to the cost of prescription charges. Responding to a joint survey by the Pharmacists’ Defence Association and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, more than a third of pharmacists (35%) said they have seen an increase in patients declining prescriptions in the past 12 months.

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