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Once one has knocked on the door and seen a nurse or a general practitioner, is there equity in terms of subsequent referral, the availability of medicines or access to further treatments?
In the United States, all routinely recommended licensed paediatric medicines that are currently manufactured contain no thimerosal or only trace amounts.
One point that came out of the seminar was that when new medicines are cleared for use many health boards do not have the money to take the medicines on board, because many of the medicines are quite expensive, although they might improve health.
It shocked me to see bombed-out houses and children without food and medicines. I would certainly be happy to lodge a motion along the lines that you have described, if you would like me to.
We adjusted for medicine. We then decided to consult the sector, make the prices working group report available, make the J M Consulting report available and observe the reaction.As we said, people in a number of subject areas have raised concerns.
Only at that point did we conclude that we might need to set a different fee level for medicine. Therefore, the decision was taken post publication of the draft bill.