Prescriptions: Fees and Charges

(asked on 7th July 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to amend the eligibility requirements for free NHS prescriptions, in the context of increases to the State Pension age.


Answered by
Karin Smyth Portrait
Karin Smyth
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 14th July 2025

The Department currently has no plans to align the upper age prescription charge exemption with the State Pension age.

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