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Inside Health

Prescription Charges; Acute Kidney Injury; MMR vaccine; Meningitis in Students

Inside Health

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.4575 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Why aren't prescription charges free across the whole of the UK? Acute Kidney Injury has shot up the NHS agenda in the last decade. Mark Porter visits Derby Royal Hospital to find out why kidney problems are so common and discovers what's been done to prevent damage to an organ many of us take for granted. Plus the World Health Organisation has removed the UK's measles free status because too few children are being immunised. Could making the vaccine mandatory be the answer? Margaret McCartney examines the evidence. And as the academic term gets underway Inside Health learns of a novel method to help with the prevention of meningitis amongst university students who are at risk of the disease.

Transcript

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0:38.4

Hello, coming up today, measles and the MMR, the UK has lost its measles free status

0:44.7

because too few children are being immunised, could making the vaccine mandatory be the answer.

0:50.8

And talking of vaccines, as students starting university are reminded to get immunised against meningitis.

0:56.0

I meet the team behind a novel approach to protect against the disease.

1:00.8

And kidneys. You might not have given yours a second thought, but kidney problems have shot up the NHS agenda in recent years.

1:08.0

I'll be finding out why and what hospitals are doing about it. But first,

1:13.5

prescription charges and the Labour Party's conference pledge that if it wins the next elections,

1:18.5

prescriptions will become free everywhere, which got us thinking here at Inside Health,

1:23.2

how come England is the only part of the UK where you still have to pay?

1:29.7

Currently £9 per item.

1:34.5

Ravi Sharma is the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's director for England.

1:36.0

So, Ravi, why?

1:38.7

Well, according to the NHS and the government,

1:42.3

there is significant income associated with prescription charges a number of approximately £575 million at the current

1:46.0

moment in time associated with such prescription charges. So it's about the money, which is going

1:50.2

to be more in England because it's by far the biggest country in the UK. So we're talking over

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