Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread

Sunshinemummy

davemorton wrote: »

So the NHS should recruit us all, we can all but them for fillers, and give them to the NHS

Badda badda bing, savings for all.

Good idea we would really shake things up and safe a fortune.... can you imagine frugal February! lol

3Dogs

Chipping in on the paracetamol - I get enough paracetamol on prescription for 28 days at 8 per day which is 224 tablets. The packs you buy in store at packs of 16 tablets. Plus I am not sure if shop bought ones are the same strength - 500 mg? So you can't compare what you get on prescription with a single pack from supermarket

davemorton

3Dogs wrote: »

Chipping in on the paracetamol - I get enough paracetamol on prescription for 28 days at 8 per day which is 224 tablets. The packs you buy in store at packs of 16 tablets. Plus I am not sure if shop bought ones are the same strength - 500 mg? So you can't compare what you get on prescription with a single pack from supermarket

They are 500mg, so would cost £2.66 from Adsa.

Please dont think I am having a go at anyone, I am not, I think it is lack of knowledge/bad organisation that causes this.

Edit: The problem you would have is the supermarket would not sell you 224 tablets in one go.

3Dogs

davemorton wrote: »

They are 500mg, so would cost £2.66 from Adsa.

Yes, so it isn't £3.83 or whatever v 20p. Still more expensive I agree

davemorton

3Dogs wrote: »

Yes, so it isn't £3.83 or whatever v 20p. Still more expensive I agree

Very true, All sorts of figures are banded about from £10 downwards. No one thinks it is the end users fault (or at least I dont) it is the way it is all organised.

If people remember the old milk tokens (dont know if they still exist), why cant the docs give out something similar for over the counter drugs, so people can just get them from adsa?

3Dogs

davemorton wrote: »

Very true, All sorts of figures are banded about from £10 downwards. No one thinks it is the end users fault (or at least I dont) it is the way it is all organised.

Oh no, I agree with what you are saying. Just the comparable figures were misleading

Actually, when I left school at 16 in 1969, I worked at the Prescription Pricing Bureau off Swan Roundabout Newcastle while I waited for o'level rescults and then posting to Civil Service, so from July to 1st December. The bundles of prescriptions used to come there from all chemists around the country and we would go through them calculating the costs of each medication prescribed and totalling up what the chemist were due to be paid, including an admin fee. It was interesting even then to see the vast difference of differing medications

3Dogs

davemorton wrote: »

If people remember the old milk tokens (dont know if they still exist), why cant the docs give out something similar for over the counter drugs, so people can just get them from adsa?

You can only buy 2 packs at supermarket. Would last me 4 days and I would have to go back and forward to store

zippydooda

aau1 wrote: »

zippy is king,i would never change a post

fair play to you :beer:
yes im pi55ed dm

davemorton

3Dogs wrote: »

Oh no, I agree with what you are saying. Just the comparable figures were misleading

Actually, when I left school at 16 in 1969, I worked at the Prescription Pricing Bureau off Swan Roundabout Newcastle while I waited for o'level rescults and then posting to Civil Service, so from July to 1st December. The bundles of prescriptions used to come there from all chemists around the country and we would go through them calculating the costs of each medication prescribed and totalling up what the chemist were due to be paid, including an admin fee. It was interesting even then to see the vast difference of differing medications

WOW! Bet that was dead interesting. You dont even consider such jobs, but guess, it has to be done, wonder how it is done today, guess by computers and stuff, so less personable. Shame you were born on the wrong side of the water really

zippydooda

3Dogs wrote: »

Chipping in on the paracetamol - I get enough paracetamol on prescription for 28 days at 8 per day which is 224 tablets. The packs you buy in store at packs of 16 tablets. Plus I am not sure if shop bought ones are the same strength - 500 mg? So you can't compare what you get on prescription with a single pack from supermarket

doesn't matter how many YOU GET its the cost per tablet the nhs pays compared to asda. you may get them free from nhs but they pay far too much.
just checked msm and they are 500mg in asda, so comparability is available