Prescriptions: Fees and Charges
(asked on 19th July 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prescription charge prepayment certificates have been purchased in each of the last five years.
This question was answered on 6th September 2017
The number of 3-month and 12-month Prescription Prepayment Certificates (PPC) purchased in each of the last five calendar years is provided in the table below:
Year | Number of PPCs sold |
2012 | 1,468,233 |
2013 | 1,531,016 |
2014 | 1,651,977 |
2015 | 1,798,037 |
2016 | 1,916,220 |
Source: NHS Business Services Authority