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Hermione Heliotrope. Member # 14248	posted As someone who never has caffeine and stupidly took 2 Panadol extra WITH 60 mg caffeine last night before going to bed for my aching throat ( Thanks Jean Bean by the way!! ) and ended up like Marty Feldman on crack, I had plenty time to lie there thinking about the difference between our pharmacies in UK and the ones in Egypt. Well my eyes were sore reading about Saddam's torture chambers Now I might still be hallucinating but this is my conclusion The UK are being ripped off Royally! Buy any drug in Egypt and it comes in a little box, all carefully packaged with batch number and date etc and price. Buy the same in UK and last time I was in USA the same it comes in a little brown bottle with sticker with your name and dosage on it. Is it still like that in UK and USA? Anyway these pharmacists must buy these self same drugs in big tubs, as they count them out on little silver triangular tray things and then put them in the bottles themselves, SO the cost to them must be MUCH cheaper than the Egyptians pay for the fully packaged ones mustn't it???? With the Egyptian system you get a box and foil, and instructions etc. In Uk you get a little bottle with 'dont drive heavy machinery'on it if you are lucky I was thinking about this last night and wondered if UK is the only country now doing the little brown bottle business and buying in bulk to save money and is the EU and the rest of the world on the box and instructions idea? Do tell and ease my troubled mind and aching throat
Dzosser Member # 9572	posted The pamphlets included in the Egyptian style medications are in miniscule print and even if you can decipher them you'd probably end up flushing the medication down the toilet for all the side effect mentioned in them. Another important fact is that our locally produced medications contain like 50 % of the active ingredients in them, that's why they're cheaper than in the 1st. world, you'll need a longer time to recover on those 'reduced' drugs, that's if you ever will recover.
Hermione Heliotrope. Member # 14248	posted Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!!!
happybunny Member # 14224	posted HH, you only get your medicine with a white sticker with your name and dosage when you have it on prescription from your doctor. The charges for these are £7.10 at the moment regardless of whether it costs £2.00 or £20.00. Most doctors ask if you pay for your prescription, if you do and if it it is cheaper than the £7.10 then they tell you just to but it over the counter and it will come as it does in Egypt, original packaging. I think the price kind of evens out in the long run - you are kind of getting a bargin if it normally costs over £7.10 and you just have to pay the prescription charges. Unlike Egypt though, it is not possible to buy antibiotics over the counter you must have a prescription from the doctor so that will definitely have the white sticker with your name on and dosage details! Maybe they do make money on them but as i said i think it does kind of even out in the end.
Hermione Heliotrope. Member # 14248	posted quote: Originally posted by happybunny: HH, you only get your medicine with a white sticker with your name and dosage when you have it on prescription from your doctor. The charges for these are £7.10 at the moment regardless of whether it costs £2.00 or £20.00. Most doctors ask if you pay for your prescription, if you do and if it it is cheaper than the £7.10 then they tell you just to but it over the counter and it will come as it does in Egypt, original packaging. I think the price kind of evens out in the long run - you are kind of getting a bargin if it normally costs over £7.10 and you just have to pay the prescription charges. Unlike Egypt though, it is not possible to buy antibiotics over the counter you must have a prescription from the doctor so that will definitely have the white sticker with your name on and dosage details! Maybe they do make money on them but as i said i think it does kind of even out in the end. Ah you are right HB I suppose it will level out in the end as some medicines are hugely expensive and some are relatively cheap to produce. I wish my Smith Glaxo Kline (made in Egypt) Ceph would kick in right now Jean Bean has given us all the plague by the way!!! and a special Get well soon to Shanta Coughdeema
happybunny Member # 14224	posted Ahhhhh Get well soon girls! My son has had flu now for the past 2 weeks before that my daughters and i had it. I was thinking of putting a red cross on my door!
mamasue Member # 4691	posted A lot of medications are ridiculously expensive in the USA... even though you can get $4 generics for a lot of prescription drugs. For one of Mr. M's expensive meds... we send the prescription to a Canadian online pharmacy for half the cost. Or if we're in the Caribbean islands or Mexico, we buy from pharmacies there..... much cheaper!! Hermione...The English system seems a ripoff, I agree, but a lot of the meds would be a lot more than the 7GBP in the UK. The good thing about Egypt is the fact that all prices are printed on the boxes... saves being ripped off (foreign prices)!
Kalila : ) Member # 14517	posted quote: Originally posted by mamasue: The good thing about Egypt is the fact that all prices are printed on the boxes... saves being ripped off (foreign prices)! Unless you are a little 80 yr old woman who gets charged 14 pounds sterling for half a box of spasmodics and a blister strip of of 10 pills of something to dry up her bowels
mamasue Member # 4691	posted Kalila... that's what I meant about 'foreign prices!!' It's sad... but true!
mamasue Member # 4691	posted sorry.... double post!
jean_bean Member # 13715	posted but HH....you KNOW that I am generous ! I even share my little buggies !
Ayisha Member # 4713	posted quote: Originally posted by Kalila : ): quote: Originally posted by mamasue: The good thing about Egypt is the fact that all prices are printed on the boxes... saves being ripped off (foreign prices)! Unless you are a little 80 yr old woman who gets charged 14 pounds sterling for half a box of spasmodics and a blister strip of of 10 pills of something to dry up her bowels ahh kalila you have the same problems as me I DO know that in UK the charge for prescriptions is nothing to do with the cost of the medications, its a charge for the pharmacist to dispense the drugs. I do know that the pharmacy dont get paid back from the health authority until at least 3 months after the drugs have been dispensed, its a whole nighmare of paperwork and form filling to get the money back and then they dont get all of it, some is later, some they dont get at all. Some drugs dispensed in UK cost an arm and a leg and doctors dont like to prescribe these because the health authority advise them how much they cost and dont want to spend money on these drugs, hence the post code lottery! as it depends on the health authoriity concerned (different ones for different areas) I did accounts for the owner of 4 pharmacies for 15 years
Kalila : ) Member # 14517	posted Ayisha i think not!! hehe i did get her money back for her but only after i threatened him with the police and to stand outside telling everyone who went in he was a rip off merchant. Btw i did get her the medicine she needed at a different pharmacy for the correct price of 17le.
Ramses nemesis Member # 4125	posted In my view, the UK has one of the best health systems probably in the world. I've lived on both sides of the pond, and can attest to that. My understanding is that in the EU they have a so called price control. Of course in the capitalist US where corporate america rules, they don't. The English just like to whinge and whine and moan and groan
Hermione Heliotrope. Member # 14248	posted quote: Originally posted by Ramses nemesis: The English just like to whinge and whine and moan and groan especially about the weather!! you can never satisfy a Brit weatherwise Ayisha Everyone here knows your poo goes into a 'bag' on your hip no mess to clean up!
Ramses nemesis Member # 4125	posted quote: Originally posted by Hermione Heliotrope.: quote: Originally posted by Ramses nemesis: The English just like to whinge and whine and moan and groan especially about the weather!! and about the sheep shaggers
Pink cherry Member # 13979	posted Having worked for a pharmaceutical company for many years the little brown bottles stopped many years ago in favour of pre packed bubble wraps in boxes. For your money you got less but it was all ordered by the The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)....a government body
happybunny Member # 14224	posted Pink Cherry quoted little brown bottles stopped many years ago in favour of pre packed bubble wraps in boxes. --------------------------------------------- Not in the Uk they haven't You still get it in a brown glass bottle or a white plastic bottle.
Hermione Heliotrope. Member # 14248	posted quote: Originally posted by Ramses nemesis: quote: Originally posted by Hermione Heliotrope.: quote: Originally posted by Ramses nemesis: The English just like to whinge and whine and moan and groan especially about the weather!! and about the sheep shaggers Sssshhhhhh!!! hope Advocaat isn't listening
Pink cherry Member # 13979	posted quote: Originally posted by happybunny: Pink Cherry quoted little brown bottles stopped many years ago in favour of pre packed bubble wraps in boxes. --------------------------------------------- Not in the Uk they haven't You still get it in a brown glass bottle or a white plastic bottle. Not if the pharmacies/ chemists can get them pre packed. Bottles and containers cost more. I worked for a Wholesaler in UK...and the (MHRA)....a government body preferred the tablets not to be handled.
Kalila : ) Member # 14517	posted Rofl has ADVOCATE turned into a nasty gloopy yellow liquid since last i heard?
Ayisha Member # 4713	posted quote: Originally posted by Hermione Heliotrope.: quote: Originally posted by Ramses nemesis: The English just like to whinge and whine and moan and groan especially about the weather!! you can never satisfy a Brit weatherwise Ayisha Everyone here knows your poo goes into a 'bag' on your hip no mess to clean up! I do miss moaning about the weather so much that now I open the curtains and say huh ANOTHER bloody sunny day!! I told you about my poo in confidence H
Ramses nemesis Member # 4125	posted quote: Originally posted by Ayisha: I do miss moaning about the weather so much that now I open the curtains and say huh ANOTHER bloody sunny day!! huh, typical
Ayisha Member # 4713	posted quote: Originally posted by Ramses nemesis: quote: Originally posted by Ayisha: I do miss moaning about the weather so much that now I open the curtains and say huh ANOTHER bloody sunny day!! huh, typical I did get chance the other day to say 'It's windy today!'