Cancer prescriptions campaign success
Tuesday, 23 September 2008, UK-wide
Gordon Brown has announced that there will be free prescriptions in England for cancer patients and those with long term conditions. Ciaran Devane, Macmillan Cancer Support's chief executive responded:
"We are absolutely delighted the Government has listened to us. Cancer patients in England have been struggling to pay these unfair charges for too long and it is great news that they will no longer face this added burden when they are fighting cancer.
"This must now be implemented quickly and clearly by the Government."
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Breaking News: Northern Ireland's Health Minister Michael McGimpsey has announced that prescription charges will be scrapped for everyone from 2010. Charges will be reduced to £3 in January next year and then will be abolished altogether in April 2010. Read Macmillan's reaction here.
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