EAST Lancashire chemists condemned the rise in prescription charges and said the tax should be abolished altogether.
The announcement by Health Minister Barney Hayhoe took charges from £2 to £2.20 per item and meant that many drugs cost more on prescription than if they were bought over the counter.
A Pharmaceutical Society spokesman said: "It is a tax which we have always hated collecting."
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