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Prescriptions - Free or Paid?

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The question as to whether people with MS can have free prescriptions has arisen several times. So to save having to answer the same question several times, below is a link to a forum topic that may help answer this:

 

http://ms-people.com/forum/index.php?s=&am...ost&p=21579

 

At the end of the day, it would seem it's down to your GP and how "helpful" s/he may or may not be...


Marina

(belated DX in June '05, SPMS)

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