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Medicines go up 30%
Posted: Tue 15 Aug 2023 9:18 am
by Hair Cut
Just been to a local Pharmacist and was told that the Government has put up all medicines by 30% !
Is it not time that the government stood down and said "We have totally no idea how to run an economy" and let someone else have a go at it?
Re: Medicines go up 30%
Posted: Tue 15 Aug 2023 12:05 pm
by forestpixie
Yep, sadly they went up a few weeks ago
Re: Medicines go up 30%
Posted: Tue 15 Aug 2023 1:36 pm
by manyworlds
I think it's not being helped by British holidaymakers buying up all the stock because they can't get them prescribed at home!
Re: Medicines go up 30%
Posted: Tue 15 Aug 2023 6:27 pm
by laptatony
Old news, followed Turkey increasing costs.
Re: Medicines go up 30%
Posted: Wed 16 Aug 2023 9:42 am
by Kanonier
manyworlds wrote: ↑Tue 15 Aug 2023 1:36 pm
I think it's not being helped by British holidaymakers buying up all the stock because they can't get them prescribed at home!
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What evidence do you have that "British holidaymakers" are buying up all the stock, because they can't get them prescribed at home?
Re: Medicines go up 30%
Posted: Mon 16 Oct 2023 9:38 am
by manyworlds
The pharmacy being full of british people doing just that, the pharmacist telling us that and someone in my family doing just that!
Re: Medicines go up 30%
Posted: Mon 16 Oct 2023 5:03 pm
by SussexBoy
Surely, for critical drugs, a holidaymaker would need to get a prescription from a TRNC doctor. For OTC medicines, many holiday makers may have an immediate need for them although I accept that in a small proportion of cases, holidaymakers or swallows may buy some just to take home. If they can't get medicines prescribed at home on the NHS, then one has to question the real need for them.
Re: Medicines go up 30%
Posted: Mon 16 Oct 2023 8:27 pm
by Mowgli597
manyworlds wrote: ↑Tue 15 Aug 2023 1:36 pm
I think it's not being helped by British holidaymakers buying up all the stock because they can't get them prescribed at home!
I imagine there are more prescription drugs being found in black sacks around the place than a few British tourists take back with them (do other nationalities not use prescription drugs also or is it only Brits who do this?)
Re: Medicines go up 30%
Posted: Tue 17 Oct 2023 7:40 am
by forestpixie
Mowgli597 wrote: ↑Mon 16 Oct 2023 8:27 pm
manyworlds wrote: ↑Tue 15 Aug 2023 1:36 pm
I think it's not being helped by British holidaymakers buying up all the stock because they can't get them prescribed at home!
I imagine there are more prescription drugs being found in black sacks around the place than a few British tourists take back with them (do other nationalities not use prescription drugs also or is it only Brits who do this?)
I think they've found around 25, it's absolutely shocking.
Re: Medicines go up 30%
Posted: Tue 17 Oct 2023 8:25 am
by waddo
You need prescriptions to buy drugs in the South, just wonder how many are sold from the North that end up in the South along with the petrol?