Viagra bill rises as NHS increase prescriptions

[Northerner]

DOCTORS in the Lothians are dishing out thousands more Viagra prescriptions - landing the NHS with a £250,000 bill.

New statistics show NHS Lothian gave out almost 6000 notes last year compared to 55 five years earlier, when the cost of providing the impotence pills was just £6000.

NHS Lothian’s soaring Viagra bill was confirmed despite figures revealing Scotland-wide use has fallen, with 46,650 prescriptions issued last year, down from 57,551 in 2009-10.

The fall meant national spend fell from £2 million to just over £1.6m.

http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.c...rises-as-nhs-increase-prescriptions-1-3541285

 

[FergusC]

Is it because all the "wee hard men" are in Glasgow?

 

[Vicsetter]

What's the problem, it's Scottish NHS money 😛, goes with the free prescriptions.

 

[Northerner]

Actually think the tone of the article is rather childish and sniggery 'Dishing out thousands of prescriptions' - clinical decisions are being made to prescribe this drug, just because it's related to sex shouldn't be a cause for assuming it's something that is not needed by the people concerned To me, this is the same sort of attitude that dismisses diabetes as something that fat and lazy people should manage without burdening the nation with medication costs.

 

[bill hopkinson]

Well I get my free tablets each month. Levitra, not Viagra.

Apparently, as a depressed diabetic I qualify.