Tell Your MP – No Prescription Charges with HIV
posted: 22/07/2010
It's prescription charging decision time. We need your help. Now the Department of Health and other parts of government are making the spending decisions which will be part of the Autumn Spending Review. This includes deciding whether to stop charging people with conditions including HIV, MS, Parkinson’s and heart disease for the prescriptions people need to stay well.
Money may be tight but that is no excuse for continuing the gross unfairness of England's prescription charging system. Prescription charges have already been abolished for everyone, not just people with long-term conditions, in Wales and Northern Ireland; Scotland will abolish the last £3 of their charge in 2011.
Campaigners like you have already helped persuade MPs to support this campaign to end prescription charges for people with long-term conditions, including HIV. In May, the Government's independent review of prescription charges showed how this can be achieved. Now, before Parliament goes on its summer holiday and the Autumn Spending Review appears in October, we need a last push - please ask your MP to support the campaign.
It's easy to act
Please click here to ask your MP in England to sign a Parliamentary motion calling on the government to scrap prescription charges for people with long-term conditions this Autumn.
Thank you for your support.
More information about the prescription charges review here
Information on help you can get with prescription costs here
Prescription Charges Coalition There are 22 members of the Prescription Charges Coalition, including Terrence Higgins Trust who represent the HIV sector:
Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Support Group, Arthritis Care, Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus, Asthma UK, Behcets Syndrome Society, British Heart Foundation, Diabetes UK, Disability Alliance, FibroAction, Klinefelter’s Syndrome Association, Mind, Motor Neurone Disease Association, MS Society, National Ankylosing Spondylitis Society, National Association for Colitis and Crohn’s Disease, National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society, Parkinson’s UK, Pernicious Anaemia Society, Rethink, The Stroke Association, Skin Care Campaign, Terrence Higgins Trust
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