NHS prescription charges paused

The government announced earlier this week that NHS prescription charges would not go up this financial year.

This is a welcome move, especially as we had highlighted to government that some people chose not to pick up all their prescriptions due to cost-of-living pressures. You can save on prescription costs via the Help with NHS Prescription Costs webpage on the NHSBSA website.

The Department of Health and Social Care said:

• the single NHS prescription charge would remain at £9.90

• the three month pre-payment certificate (PPC) will stay at £32.05

• the annual PPC is held at £114.50

• the annual HRT PPC is also frozen, at 19.80.

  
  

All of the exemption groups and all of the wigs and fabric support charges also stay the same.

The decision differs from the approach to NHS dentistry charges, which went up on average by 2.3% from 1 April.