Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 18478

Prescriptions: Fees and Charges

Tabled: 6 December 2024

Answered: 16 December 2024

Named Day

Question

Vikki Slade

Liberal Democrat — Mid Dorset and North Poole

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.

Answer

Karin Smyth

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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