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<blockquote data-quote="smidge" data-source="post: 717530" data-attributes="member: 29301"><p>The only time I've ever been asked for my medical exemption card - and it is a card, not a certificate - was a couple of weeks ago in the hospital pharmacy when the consultant had prescribed a different insulin for me and I had to pick it up there rather than in my usual pharmacy. At my usual pharmacy I don't even tick the box on the back of the prescription - the assistant does that and I just sign.</p><p></p><p>I honestly believe the issues people are having now with fines are because the NHS has been told to clamp down on fraud and stop medication going free to those who are not entitled - unfortunately it is far easier to fine those who do not have the right paperwork than it is to properly clamp down on those committing fraud. If at the end of the accounting period, the department involved can say they've caught and fined Xx hundred fraudulent claims saving Xx hundred/thousand £s, they will have met their targets and justified their existence as no-one will look any further. The fact is of course, they will have saved no money whatsoever and cost hundreds or thousands of £s administering a completely futile piece of bureaucracy. Such is life with the NHS I'm afraid.</p><p></p><p>Smidge</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smidge, post: 717530, member: 29301"] The only time I've ever been asked for my medical exemption card - and it is a card, not a certificate - was a couple of weeks ago in the hospital pharmacy when the consultant had prescribed a different insulin for me and I had to pick it up there rather than in my usual pharmacy. At my usual pharmacy I don't even tick the box on the back of the prescription - the assistant does that and I just sign. I honestly believe the issues people are having now with fines are because the NHS has been told to clamp down on fraud and stop medication going free to those who are not entitled - unfortunately it is far easier to fine those who do not have the right paperwork than it is to properly clamp down on those committing fraud. If at the end of the accounting period, the department involved can say they've caught and fined Xx hundred fraudulent claims saving Xx hundred/thousand £s, they will have met their targets and justified their existence as no-one will look any further. The fact is of course, they will have saved no money whatsoever and cost hundreds or thousands of £s administering a completely futile piece of bureaucracy. Such is life with the NHS I'm afraid. Smidge [/QUOTE]
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