The measures are part of a drive to ensure people have access to quality information that will enable them to make informed choices about their overall care.

Patients and health and social care professionals will be able to access quality information through NHS Choices which currently details 13 long-term conditions (asthma, bowel cancer, CKD, COPD, coronary heart disease, depression, dementia, diabetes, heart failure, osteoarthritis, Read more »

Ms Primarolo said: ‘I would urge patients to make an appointment with their GP this week to talk about applying for their exemption certificate.’

An Avon LMC statement reads: ‘While supporting the much-needed move to relieve the financial burden of charges from these patients, GPs have been given no information from Ms Primarolo’s department about how they should implement the planned change.

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An online survey has been launched as part of the review of prescription charges by Professor Ian Gilmore, president of the Royal College of Physicians.

The government has committed to making prescriptions free of charge for people with long-term conditions in England over the next few years. The survey asks for views on the benefits of exemption for long-terms conditions, which conditions should qualify for exemption and what the Read more »