Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 67787

Prescriptions: Terminal Illnesses

Tabled: 14 July 2025

Answered: 17 July 2025

Named Day

Question

Sarah Bool

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 9 July 2025 to Question 64957 on Prescriptions: Terminal Illnesses, if he will make an assessment of the cost to the public purse of the requirement for patients to renew

Answer

Karin Smyth

The Department has made no assessment of the cost to the public purse of the requirement for patients, including terminally ill patients and patients with type 1 diabetes, to renew their medical exemption certificate every five years.Between 1 June 2024 a...

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