Health chiefs have ruled it’s time to tell patients not to expect the NHS to treat minor problems such as coughs, indigestion and dandruff. It’s been estimated ending NHS prescriptions for ailments that will get better by themselves or with ­medicines bought over the counter will free up £97million a year to spend on nurses and hip replacements. (Image: iStockphoto)The NHS spends £23million a year on constipation remedies, which could pay for 900 community nurses, and £3million on athlete’s foot, which would fund 810 hip replacements. Protests from patients’ groups say the poor would lose out. Added to this, the overall saving for the NHS will be a drop in the ocean.”

Source: Daily Mirror May 24, 2018 18:27 UTC