I wonder how many months supply of tamoxifen your Gp’s prescribe.
Mine gives me a prescription with 56 tablets on. It is suppose to be 2 months supply.
I wonder if GP’s are ignorant of the 30 days hath Sept, April, June and Nov. all the rest have 31 except for Feb which has 28 and 29 in a leap year.
Usually i get my prescription from tesco and as the boxes contain 30 tabs they just give me the two boxes. However got the prescription from superdrug this time. I could hardly believe they cut off 4 tabs and gave me exactely 56, bloomin nerve. I wont be going there again.
My friend has thyroid probs and has free prescriptions.
How is it going with this trying to get free prescriptions for BC folk??
hi ,
i get 90 tablets at a time 3 x 30 tablets…i too would like to know how things were going with the free prescriptions…how do they decide which medicines should be paid for…thyroid paitents don’t pay, drug addiccts get their methadone free,
yet Tamoxifen is part of my cancer treatment and i have to pay for it same as my son has to pay for his asthma inhalers…these medicines are helping to treat a life threatening and a chronic condition
I take thyroxin as well as cancer drugs, but totally agree it is wrong that cancer drugs etc are not on free perscription list. My area has had a petition going and my family wrote to our MP as I feel it is wrong. We had a reply that as so many people have cancer it would cost a lot!!! If you live in Wales all perscriptions free anyway, it just makes me cross the way things are decided and how it varies from county to county.
I had a chat with a pharmacist about the costs of the drugs that we take for cancer. I am currently on the arimidex and am prescribed 2 months (56 tabs at a time) - the cost of these at retail is about £85.00 a box - so I find the 6.80 odd per box on the NHS is not too much to complain about. We really should count our blessings here!!
I enquired about getting free prescriptions with the nhs helpline and was told SORRY breast cancer isnt included in this, but was told you can buy a yearly card that covers you for your prescriptions have put what it states on the website & a link to it
Prepayment of NHS prescription charges
Last modified date: 12 March 2007 Patients who have to pay for more than five prescription items in four months or 14 items in 12 months may find it cheaper to buy a pre-payment certificate (PPC).
IMPORTANT - some people can get free prescriptions. You should check leaflet HC11 to see if you could get free prescriptions before buying a PPC.
Buying a PPC
People who have to pay for more than 5 prescription items in 4 months, or 14 items in 12 months, could save money by buying a PPC. Details of the current prescription charge and pre-payment certificate costs are available from leaflet HC12 - Charges and optical voucher values.
Thank you all - I’m pleased to read this and save a few bob (that dates me!).
I guess the usual question springs to mind, as it has been doing since diagnosis - WHY do I have to find this out from a web site instead of a GP’s surgery or the chemist’s I keeping going to?? Grrrrrr…