Government overhauling free medicine entitlement system
The government is working on overhauling the free medicine entitlement system, separating health sector employees from the rest of the public service, creating an accurate audit trail of where the government's medicines are going, and cutting down on the perennial waiting lists plaguing the public health sector.
Free prescriptions are costing the health service up to £20m a year because many patients are abusing the scheme, an assembly member has warned.