Sickle Cell Diseases: Prescriptions
(asked on 7th March 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing free prescriptions for sickle cell patients.
This question was answered on 14th March 2023
There are no plans to make an assessment. Approximately 89% of prescription items are already dispensed free of charge and there are already a wide range of exemptions from prescription charges currently in place. Patients with sickle cell disease may meet the eligibility criteria for another prescription charge exemption and be in receipt of free prescriptions.