I note that Jeremy Hunt is saying that the collusion between pharmacists and drug companies is causing the NHS to pay higher prices for drugs, and that this is unfair to the NHS users.  

I wonder if this is a classic deflection tactic, pointing our outrage at something else rather than the thorny issue of the prescription tax? After all – 

http://www.chemistdirect.co.uk/spironolactone-tablet-25mg_4_16690.html

£2.80 on a private prescription – to you, Mr Prescription holder, £7.85. £5.05 profit for the NHS.  Bear in mind that is a retail cost, so you can bet that they are around 5p per tablet wholesale.  

We, the end users of the NHS are being robbed at the point of delivery, unless we live in Scotland.  I think this is a far bigger crime than the NHS not having the procurement intellect to counter the force a drug company may apply to pricing…but because the prescription charge is enshrined in law, that makes it legal piracy.  Frankly, it is immoral.