: 35 ET recipes are free for everyone when the NHS first established. Scotland has teamed up with Northern Ireland and Wales in abolition of prescription fees-England leaving as the only part of the United Kingdom in order for them to load.No one in Scotland will have to pay for prescribed drugs following the move by the SNP Government.
It comes on the same day fees per item rise in England by 20 p to ￡ 7.40.
But despite the cargo, 90% of items failed to be given away for free as children, who are on low incomes and cancer patients are exempt.
In Scotland, recipe costs fall for the last three years and amounted to ￡ 3 before the April 1, means that the Scottish Government the losers at 57 million pounds per year.
Under devolution, Wales was the first part of the United Kingdom to make recipes free-four years ago-and Northern Ireland followed in 2010.
Scotland's Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon said: ' a SNP Government, working for Scotland, has ended recipe-costs that were a tax on health problems associated with long term conditions save around ￡ 180. '
Rules were free for everyone when the NHS was founded in 1948, but charges were introduced in the early 1950s to gaps in funding.
The Ministry of health defended its policy of charging in England.
It said that costs more than ￡ 450 m per year-equivalent to the salary costs of 18,000 nurses or 3500 hospital consultants increased.
Prepaid dealA spokeswoman said: "this revenue helps the NHS to essential services for patients."
And they added the exemptions in addition to those who regularly requirements, such as patients with long term conditions, were eligible for discounted rates.
The spokeswoman said: "the price of the prescription 12-month prepaid certificate will be frozen for the second consecutive year. This makes it possible to all the requirements needed for an average price of ￡ 2 per week. "
???Continue reading the main story Nick Triggle Health Reporter, BBC NewsThe elderly, children and persons with being treated for illnesses such as cancer are most likely requirements needed.
And despite the furore about the differences between the United Kingdom – all these groups get their medications without paying no matter where they live.
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland can all have a policy of free recipes, but in England there is an extensive list of exemptions and discounts.
Nine in 10 prescription items in England free if exempt distributed include the under 16s, over 60s, pregnant women and people with low incomes.
The rest are much anticipated through a prepaid scheme, which means that people who need regular rules, such as those with long-term conditions such as arthritis, only have to pay a little more than ￡ 2 per week.
It means only the healthy and wealthy pay the full ￡ 7.40 cargo.
Respond to the fact that England only stands in pricing of recipes, Roger Goss, from patient concerns, said: "patients in England will ask if this is fair. They are discriminated against and the losers. It must be the same thing about the NHS. "The movement against the fees to the North of the border in the second week of the election campaign for the election of Scottish Parliament on 5 May.
The Scottish Labour Party said he welcomes the move.
His health spokesman Jackie Baillie said: "this is something that we in the Scottish Parliament supported and to fruition without that support would not come."
Derek Brownlee, finance for Scottish Tories spokesman that free recipes to give to those people who "can well afford to pay for them" was "politically irresponsible and a drain on public resources at this time of tremendous financial challenges in the NHS".
He added "the young, the elderly and those on benefits are all already exempted. Using millions of Scotland's health budget to cover the costs of recipes to zero by next year means that it cannot be spent elsewhere. "
The Scottish Liberal Democrats said it would put "what we have inherited to free recipes" but added that the SNP could not have both ways.
A spokesman said: "they can't scrap prescription costs and continue to pay 28 million pounds of bonuses to the highest paid workers in the NHS."
The Scottish Greens said it believed that there is equal access to the NHS should be and that meant free access for everyone on the point of use, including smoking recipes.
The party co-convener Patrick Harvie added: "we support fully the abolition of prescription charges. This kind of movement will be more difficult to maintain, though, if none of the other parties are willing to support our call to make fairer taxes and to protect public services. "
SNP Scottish Labour Scottish Tories Scottish Lib Dems Scottish Greens Scotland's Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon said recipe costs were that a tax on sick-healthIt said those with long term conditions over ￡ 180The abolition of prescription cost brands 1 April as April fairness dayLabour health spokesman Jackie Baillie welcomed the abolition of regulation chargesIt says it was a policy that It supported in the last eight parliamentIt the Government should rather have moved to the end fees for those with chronic conditionsTory Finance spokesman Derek Brownlee said give free recipes to those who could afford "politically irresponsible" that the money for the financing of the move must be paid to cancer drugsIt might have spent on care for the young and elderlyA spokesman said it was a free recipes policyBut considers must be saved to the growing drug budgets by cutting consultant bonusesSaved can then money on cancer services and other health schemesThe Greens co-convener Patrick Harvie said his party agreed with the abolition of prescription charges would keep.He said health must be free at the point of useTo pay for this policy that the party in "fairer taxes would bring"
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