Catching up

There's an oddball sort of post to be found on Freedom Central which begins by describing a Boots store in a major Swansea retail park as “a community pharmacy” and ends by stating that Welsh Lib Dems are “committed to free prescriptions in Wales”.

Free prescriptions actually came into being in Wales April 2007 and the move received rather less than enthusiastic support from Lib Dems at the time. Indeed, just a few months later, the [then] Welsh Liberal Democrat Health Spokesperson, Jenny Randerson was quoted as saying:

“The 20% of people who were paying for prescription should, in my view, continue paying for them. At the same time we should also be sorting out a much longer list of chronic conditions, which would be eligible for free prescriptions. We have a financially over-stretched health service and this [free prescriptions] is an expensive option.”

It’s good to see that they’ve moved on.