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The British Medical Association is urging the Government to allow more Viagra to be prescribed free on the NHS.  Currently GPs can only prescribe a small number to certain men who are suffering from other conditions which may be the underlying cause of their erectile dysfunction such as diabetes and Parkinson’s disease.  The BMA wants to stop men from purchasing fake Viagra over the internet and they see this route as being the most effective way of combating this problem.  At the moment it is reckoned that only 10 % of the 2.3 million men in the UK suffering from erectile dysfunction are currently being treated and some are being tempted by low prices on the internet for fake medication.  As we have said many times before, if the price of the medication seems like a bargain then it is probably fake.  The way to deal with this issue is not to make it free to everyone on the NHS as this is unaffordable and the BMA knows this.  The way to ensure that patients are not given fake medication over the internet is for the regulatory authorities to issue kite marks to genuine clinics operating on the internet.  All legitimate online prescribers would have nothing to fear from such a move and with a public education programme the fraudsters would soon be marginalised!