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The Drug Tariff, also known as Drug Tariff price, is that amount that the NHS repays pharmacies for generic prescription medications. [1] It differs from prescription charges which are £9.90 per item/drug as of April 2024 unless exemptions apply.
NHS Tayside was originally formed as Tayside Health Board in April 1974. [4] It replaced the Eastern Regional Hospital Board, which itself had been created in July 1948 as a result of the creation of the National Health Service, as having the responsibility for managing hospital provision in Dundee, Angus and Perth and Kinross (the Eastern Regional Hospital Board had also had some ...
The scheme applies to all branded, licensed medicines available on the NHS. The purpose of the scheme is to achieve a balance between reasonable prices for the NHS and a fair return for the pharmaceutical industry. The current PPRS scheme, using a value-based pricing mechanism, came into effect on 1 January 2014, to run for no less than five ...
The first donation to the hospital was a legacy from Mrs Clerk-Rattray in 1882. [1] Subsequently, Mrs Macpherson of Newton Castle gifted the site and further donations were then forthcoming. [1]
Tayside continues to have a joint electoral, valuation, and health board. It retained its police and fire services until they were merged, on 1 April 2013, into bodies known as Police Scotland and the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, which cover the whole of Scotland. Provision of healthcare across the region also continues via NHS Tayside. [5]
However, people may be exempt from charges in various exemption categories. Charges were abolished by NHS Wales in 2007, Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland in 2010 and by NHS Scotland in 2011. In 2010/11, in England, £450 million was raised through these charges, some 0.5% of the total NHS budget. [1]
Entry on NHS Tayside Website This page was last edited on 10 June 2024, at 15:24 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
There are some bus services that run to the hospital, which are all provided by Stagecoach: the route 1 service stops right outside the hospital. A new bus link between Perth Royal Infirmary and the other main Tayside hospital, Ninewells Hospital, called "Hospital Link", started in April 2008 to relieve car parking problems at the hospitals. [11]