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PRESCRIPTION COSTS: The prescription charge has increased seven-fold in real terms since the Conservatives took office in 1979, Brian Mawhinney, Minister of State for Health, told Barry Jones (Lab. Alyn and Deeside). By 1 April, he said, the charge will have increased 757 per cent, although the charge remained 'substantially less than the average cost of a prescribed item to the NHS', and charge exemptions covered one in five prescribed items, compared with two in five in 1979.
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