Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 64957

Prescriptions: Terminal Illnesses

Tabled: 3 July 2025
Answered: 9 July 2025
Named Day

Question

Sarah Bool

ConservativeSouth Northamptonshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment Department has made of the cost to the public purse of the requirement that (a) all and (b) terminally ill patients should renew their Medical Exemption Certificates every five year

Answer

Karin Smyth
The Department has made no assessment of the cost to the public purse of the requirement for patients to renew their medical exemption certificate every five years.