Free prescriptions for 60 year old

seven-day-weekend

I have a car and drive but for many journeys I use my bus pass. If I'm going into the city centre I don't want to have to worry about parking the car. If I'm visiting my friend, then I live at one end of the bus route and she lives at the other, so why drive?

I'm lucky enough to live where there are several bus routes I can use, all of them run every 5-15 minutes. But for those of you without bus routes, that's a shame but it is a reflection of where you live. I live within walking distance of the city centre (and often walk it). If you want the quiet of the countryside then you have the lack of facilities that goes with it. Horses for courses.

ukcarper

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

Mainly because most dentists are not NHS? Is it free for the NHS ones?

It means tested if not on pension credit you pay.

whitesatin

I have to pay all my dental charges and I am with an NHS dentist. I am also in receipt of state pension but no other benefits so I have to pay in full.

I do remember when it was free. I can't image the service being over used should it be free, possibly unlike the doctor/prescriptions.

black_taxi_2

I switched from a private to NHS,7 x cheaper

seven-day-weekend

black_taxi wrote: »

I switched from a private to NHS,7 x cheaper

However, as I understand it, much of the work is not covered under the NHS?

Catcherupper14

As the state retirement pension age increases, will the free prescription qualification age also increase?

Pollycat

Catcherupper14 wrote: »

As the state retirement pension age increases, will the free prescription qualification age also increase?

It hasn't so far.

I'm not due to collect my pension until I'm almost 65 (I'm over 60) but I get free prescriptions.

But who knows what will happen in the future?

KxMx

zygurat789 wrote: »

NHS Scotland and Wales have, and will have, regardless of yes or no(in the case of the former), a finite amount of money to spend.
Do you want free prescriptions and car parking or the expensive treatments and life saving drugs which we get in England.

Exactly.

In the event of a yes vote Scotland is going to have a lot of things to pay out for. I wonder if there will be anything left in the pot for perks currently enjoyed, such as free prescriptions for all.

pollypenny

KxMx wrote: »

Exactly.

In the event of a yes vote Scotland is going to have a lot of things to pay out for. I wonder if there will be anything left in the pot for perks currently enjoyed, such as free prescriptions for all.

You're joking? Salmond is imagining a paradise!

mgdavid

KxMx wrote: »

Exactly.

In the event of a yes vote Scotland is going to have a lot of things to pay out for. I wonder if there will be anything left in the pot for perks currently enjoyed, such as free prescriptions for all.

Read the news (BBC) !
Scots NHS is run and financed separately already. They are *currently* budgeting to be £400 million in the red over the next two years due to totally unaffordable policies.