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 much money the NHS has collected in prescription fines in each of the last five years.
The following table shows the value recovered from penalty charge notices (PCNs) issued between September 2014 and July 2018.
Year PCN was issued | Value recovered |
2014 | £525,666.43 |
2015 | £7,309,707.75 |
2016 | £13,828,285.43 |
2017 | £18,213,151.09 |
2018 | £13,393,952.58 |
Notes:
The value recovered can change over time as patients often pay their fine in instalments. This means that at the end of the financial year, if a patient is still paying their instalments, the NHS Business Services Authority cannot count that fine as being paid or unpaid. That is why the NHS Business Services Authority is only able to report how much money they have recovered rather than the actual amount of fines that have been paid.