Arrr I have to say bestpet have a bit of a vested interest in this one though...it is "up to" £15 and they know it's going to dent their profits as less people will bother getting a prescription and buying elsewhere. I can't help but feel they're trying to pull the wool over people's eyes and react to the horror of £15 when in reality it's probably not going to be that much at most places.
Someone I know says their vet is going to charge £4.70 or something, not £15 - but the price of many of their own stock medicines is going to go down.
Ultimately, vets practices have much higher overheads than someone with a warehouse dispensing medicines, and they have to try and cover it somehow, so I'm not surprised really that they are now going to be allowed to charge so that you can get the stuff elsewhere. If the free thingy had continued, vets would have 'lost' so much money from not making any profit on medicines, that they would have ended up hiking consultation/op charges to compensate.
So I guess that's a roundabout way of saying I don't fully agree with the petition, sorry
