Prescriptions: Fees and Charges
(asked on 5th September 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many prescription fines were issued in each of the last five years.
This question was answered on 10th September 2018
The following table shows the number of penalty charge notices (PCNs) issued between September 2014 and July 2018.
Year | Total PCNs issued |
2014 | 35,812 |
2015 | 408,478 |
2016 | 864,366 |
2017 | 1,052,430 |
2018 | 760,149 |
Total | 3,121,235 |
Note:
NHS Business Services Authority assumed responsibility for the Prescription Exemption Checking Service in September 2014, so no data is held prior to this.