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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/prescription-charges-to-go-up-20p.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Prescription costs in England are due to increase by 20p to £7.40 per item" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/min-prescription-charges-to-go-up-20p.jpg" alt="Prescription costs in England are due to increase by 20p to £7.40 per item"/></a></p>
<p>The cost of prescriptions in England will rise to £7.40 per item from £7.20, the Government has announced.</p>
<p>The move will come as a blow to campaigners, including the British Medical Association (BMA), who have been calling for charges to be scrapped altogether.</p>
<p>The Department of Health has also announced that dental charges will rise.</p>
<p>Prescriptions are free in Wales and Northern Ireland, and will be free in Scotland from April 1.</p>
<p>The NHS in England nets more than £450 million a year from prescription charges.</p>
<p>Last year, the coalition shelved a report ordered by the previous Government into how charges for patients could be reduced.</p>
<p>The study, from Professor Ian Gilmore, former president of the Royal College of Physicians, said the current system of charges was &#8220;outdated and arbitrary&#8221;.</p>
<p>He said all patients with long-term conditions lasting at least six months should be exempt, with the exemption remaining in place for three years.</p>
<p>Dental charge for a band one course of treatment, such as a check-up, will increase by 50p from £16.50 to £17, while a band two course of treatment, including fillings and a root canal, will increase by £1.40, from £45.60 to £47. Band three treatments, such as dentures and bridges, will increase by £6 from £198 to £204.</p>
<p>Charges for elastic stockings and tights, wigs and fabric supports supplied by hospitals will be also be increased.</p>
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