Prescriptions: Fees and Charges
(asked on 18th June 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on what proportion of prescriptions a charge was levied in 2014-15.
This question was answered on 24th June 2015
For the period April 2014 to March 2015, a charge was levied at the point of dispensing for 4.97% of all prescription items dispensed in the community in England. A further 4.45% were dispensed using an English pre-payment certificate.