While prescribed medicines are free for all in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, patients England who not exempt still need to pay prescription charges. But the current cost-of-living crisis, is present system fair might it actually represent a false economy NHS?

and colleagues present a rigorous and comprehensive examination of pharmacare policy in British Columbia, specifically the introduction of co-payments for seniors in 2002, followed by an income-based " Fair PharmaCare " Program in 2003. Fair PharmaCare achieved its primary objective of reducing public expenditures on pharmaceuticals – an unsurprising accomplishment. Although politically hazardo...

The study examined the quantity and quality of infrastructure in Ibadan, Nigeria with a view to using information to providing policy guidelines for sustainable infrastructural development. Using stratified sampling technique, a total of fifteen wards from the five local government areas in Ibadan metropolis were selected for study. The selection of all the local government areas is based on th...

reading comprehension plays a central role in nonfiction general english university courses in different efl situations and one of the important factors affecting it is vocabulary size. accordingly, the present study aimed at investigating the effect of unknown vocabulary size on efl learners’ reading comprehension. to this end, 40 tefl freshmen were ed to participate in this study on the basis...

Abstract This paper proposes an explanatory model of the intention to pay for fair trade food products based on stimulus-organism-response (S-O-R) theory. The research aims are test effects general attitudes toward sustainable valuation fair-trade products, study emotions willingness and analyse mediating role product evaluation emotions. proposed was tested using ordinary least squares estimat...

Abstract— While exisiting weighted fair scheduling schemes guarantee minimum bandwidths/resources for the classes/processes of a shared channel, the maximum rate control, which is critical to service providers, carriers, and network managers for resource management and business strategies in many applications, is generally enforced by employing traffic policing mechanisms. These approaches use ...