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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rubold" data-source="post: 771496" data-attributes="member: 138086"><p>I've never been asked for an exemption certificate in 38 years.  I went along with the theory that it was issued by the NHS at diagnosis and was valid for a lifetime.  Although I can't remember ever seeing such a document.,  I do remember paying for other drugs like antibiotics as, I had no idea that these were also exempt and the pharmacist never advised me.   For the first 15 years or so all I received without charge was insulin, since needles and syringes were were not provided on prescription, until the govt. decided to give them away free to drug addicts to minimise the spread of HIV etc. and then realised that they would need to include insulin dependent diabetics.  I owned a lab testing business and used to buy my own test strips (BM Stix) with a company order.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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