Prescription charges

Business environment,

Patients would have faced £800m in prescription costs without PPCs

The NHS Business Services Authority said 3.35 million patients received NHS prescriptions where a PPC exemption was applied in 2024-25.

28 Jan 2026

Policy,

Labour extends freeze on NHS prescription charges ahead of Budget announcement

The chancellor Rachel Reeves said the charge will stay at £9.90 and save patients about £12 million next year.

24 Nov 2025

Financial Management & Funding,

Patients risk prosecution amid rise in invalid HRT prescription prepayment claims

Over 200,000 incorrect claims for medicines not covered by the PPC in the year to May.

14 Aug 2025

Policy,

There will be no prescription charge hike this year, Labour confirms

Labour claims fee freeze will save patients £18m over the financial year

28 Apr 2025

Public health,

Over three million patients received PPC exemptions in 2023-24

The NHS Business Services Authority said patients would have spent £817 million in prescription charges without prescription prepayment certificates.

26 Mar 2025

Public health,

NPA chair: Prescription charge rise is ‘shameful neglect of working people’

Nick Kaye is the latest figure in pharmacy to criticise the government over the prescription charge increase.

05 Apr 2024

Policy,

‘Tax on the vulnerable’: Prescription charge to rise to £9.90 from May

RPS and CPE blast the Government's decision to implement the 25p increase.

04 Apr 2024

Public health,

Patients would have faced £800m in prescription costs without PPCs

Labour extends freeze on NHS prescription charges ahead of Budget announcement

Patients risk prosecution amid rise in invalid HRT prescription prepayment claims

There will be no prescription charge hike this year, Labour confirms

Over three million patients received PPC exemptions in 2023-24

NPA chair: Prescription charge rise is ‘shameful neglect of working people’

‘Tax on the vulnerable’: Prescription charge to rise to £9.90 from May

Nearly all pharmacists have had patients decline medicines due to prescription charge

Hancock urged to remove script charges 'to save lives'

Scrap the prescription charge during pandemic, Government urged

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Patients would have faced £800m in prescription costs without PPCs

Labour extends freeze on NHS prescription charges ahead of Budget announcement

Patients risk prosecution amid rise in invalid HRT prescription prepayment claims

There will be no prescription charge hike this year, Labour confirms

Over three million patients received PPC exemptions in 2023-24

NPA chair: Prescription charge rise is ‘shameful neglect of working people’

‘Tax on the vulnerable’: Prescription charge to rise to £9.90 from May

Nearly all pharmacists have had patients decline medicines due to prescription charge

Hancock urged to remove script charges 'to save lives'

Scrap the prescription charge during pandemic, Government urged