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This is obviously more serious as it involves prescribed drugs rather strips but note this part....
Another man was filmed selling Enbrel, a specialist arthritis drug, for £250. The drug costs the NHS about £10,000 a year.
He told the reporter: "This is £800 at the pharmacy."
He said he was prescribed a box every four weeks and sold on any that was unused.
"I'm accumulating a box every three months,"
According to @bangkokdiabetic 's theory he was entitled to sell them.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-38560041
 
Mr_Pot said:
This is obviously more serious as it involves prescribed drugs rather strips but note this part....
Another man was filmed selling Enbrel, a specialist arthritis drug, for £250. The drug costs the NHS about £10,000 a year.
He told the reporter: "This is £800 at the pharmacy."
He said he was prescribed a box every four weeks and sold on any that was unused.
"I'm accumulating a box every three months,"
According to @bangkokdiabetic 's theory he was entitled to sell them.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-38560041
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Deary me, you can't compare selling drugs on the internet to selling test strips! Drugs can kill you if you take too many, or the wrong sort, and I'm talking here of prescription drugs, just to be clear. That is clutching at straws to win your argument!
 
urbanracer said:
The NHS would not take the strips back so they have effectively thrown them away and I don't see anything wrong with making a few quid out of it, and possibly helping other self funders.
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If the Op gave them to some one who self funds for nothing just postage this forum, it would be a good thing to do.

One of the Moderators @Juicyj is giving away free some needles by the looks of it today.

Self esteem building moments when you defeat greed.
 
Mr_Pot said:
I haven't changed my tune or my direction. In my first post I said that NHS prescribed strips are not the OP's to sell. This is the principle I refer to in my second post. The NHS, and therefore taxpayers, are providing the strips for the patients treatment, not for them to make a profit however small.
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Her meter died or did you miss that salient point?
 
Tipetoo said:
If the Op gave them to some one who self funds for nothing just postage this forum, it would be a good thing to do.

One of the Moderators @Juicyj is giving away free some needles by the looks of it today.

Self esteem building moments when you defeat greed.
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In an ideal world perhaps, but OP also stated that "cash would be useful" so who knows what her situation is.
 
urbanracer said:
In an ideal world perhaps, but OP also stated that "cash would be useful" so who knows what her situation is.
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Cash is always useful, I could probably have got $150.00 for the 4 x 100 boxes of subsidised strips which cost me $5.20 all up. The four boxes would cost $240.00 over the pharmacy counter.

The money could have helped me pay bills etc, but the person I gave them too was on the wrong side of payday and needed Performa strips.

I am happy to say that she joined the NDSS and now gets subsidised strips as a T2.
 
I can only add that when a meter dies the manufacturer will normally replace it free of charge ( they make their money from the strips )
 
100 strips cost (me) about $20 (no insurance, that's online retail), so we're probably not talking serious money here. And it's true the NHS cannot use them again. They probably can't even take back unopened medications that were mailed out. I know a guy who got 3 bottles of Lantus (in the boxes, caps still in place) delivered with a cooler pack in it. He'd been taken off of it. He took the unopened package straight to the pharmacy here at the Veterans Hospital and they said they couldn't take it (so he put it in his fridge and gave it to me!).
 
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