Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 14002

Thyroid Diseases: Prescriptions

Tabled: 13 November 2024

Answered: 18 November 2024

Named Day

Question

Sir Christopher Chope

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason there are different rules for exemptions from NHS prescription charges for people with (a) hypothyroidism and (b) hyperthyroidism.

Answer

Karin Smyth

Records are not available to enable us to explain why only hypothyroidism is listed.The list of specified medical conditions that provide exemption from prescription charges was agreed in discussion with the British Medical Association in 1968. Decisions ...

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