Income Support Prescription Payment Exemption
Dear Prescription Pricing Division,
Please provide me with honest and accurate answers to the following questions:
1. When were pharmacies told not to accept valid income support letters showing benefit entitlement as proof of prescription payment exemption?
2. Was this done so as to minimise the amount of people who would refuse to pay for their prescription so as to maximise profits?
3. Are there any hidden/secretive/publicly unknown incentives for pharmacies to refuse to accept Income support entitlement letters as proof of prescription payment exemption?
4. Why do pharmacies deny knowledge of Income support entitlement letters as being proof of prescription payment exemption?
Yours faithfully,
[name removed]
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I have anonymised this correspondence at the request of the user.
The response from the authority was not easy to anonymise. I have thus hidden it from public view. An anonymised version of the authority's response of 12 May 2011 is available here:
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