From laxatives to sun cream: the total list of medicines which will not be offered on NHS prescription at the tip of the month
- Banned merchandise embrace cough mixtures, eye drops, laxatives and sun creams
- Treatments for constipation, cold sores and minor burns won't be prescribed
- Extreme move hopes to save lots of the cash-strapped NHS £100 million a year
- Aims to avoid another winter crisis, with money going into frontline services
The health service proclaimed back in March it's forbiddance prescriptions for over-the-counter remedies from could thirty one.
Cough mixture, eye drops, laxatives, sun creams, paracetamol and anti-dandruff shampoo area unit among the product that may be restrained.
Treatments for constipation, cold sores, minor burns and non-severe pain, like ache, also will stop to be accessible on prescription.
The move, that is hoped to save lots of the cash-strapped NHS £100 million a year, follows the 'worst winter ever' that crystal rectifier to thousands of off operations.
Emergency doctors in swamped A&E units have repeatedly begged for additional funding, that they claim is that the solely thanks to avoid another crisis next winter.
NHS officers voted in favour of the money-saving plans during a meeting, with the leftover money being endowed into frontline services.
