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Prescriptions: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will reinstate the availability of medications previously available on prescription for (a) households on low incomes and (b) pensioners so that they are free of charge.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
6 Dec 2024
Target answer date
16 Dec 2024
Answer
16 Dec 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 6 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will reinstate the availability of medications previously available on prescription for (a) households on low incomes and (b) pensioners so that they are free of charge.

  2. 16 Dec 2024

    Target answer date

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  3. 16 Dec 2024

    Answer published

    There are currently no plans to review the list of items that formed part of the NHS England review into medicines that cannot be routinely supplied. Prescribers are free to make their own decisions on which medicines to prescribe, unless they are banned ...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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