Upton Group Practice

Costs

If your GP gives you a prescription you need to take it to a Pharmacy for the medication to be dispensed.  You should fill in the details on the back of the prescription form and sign it before handing it over to the Pharmacist.  Unless you are eligible for free prescriptions you will have to pay a charge for each item on your prescription.  This charge is currently £7-20 (From April 2009).

If you are entitled to receive your prescriptions free of charge you will need to be able to prove this.  If you claim exemption when you are not entitled to you may have to pay a fine.

Certain groups of people are entitled to free prescriptions.  This applies to;-

v Children under 16 and young people in fulltime education who are under 19

v     People aged 60 and over

v    Pregnant women and those who have had a baby in the last 12 months get free prescriptions if they have an exemption certificate.  Ask for form FW8 from your midwife to apply for your exemption certificate.  The form tells you what to do.

v     People getting certain benefits

v     People with certain medical conditions.

To see if you qualify for free prescriptions look in leaflets HC11 – Help with Health costs – which is obtainable from Post offices, some pharmacies and GP surgeries.

You can also get a copy by writing to the Department of Health, PO Box 777, London SE1 6XH

 Or you can look on the web at

 http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/index.htm

Search for  "NHS costs and exemptions"

If you are not entitled to free prescriptions but are on regular medication you could save money by buying a Prepayment Certificate – otherwise known as a “season ticket”.  These are available for periods of either three or twelve months and you will not have to pay anything more for any NHS prescriptions for the period of the certificate.

Current costs are:-

3 month certificate - £28.25

12 month certificate – £104.00

To apply for one of these certificates ask for NHS From FP95 which is available from your surgery or on the Department of Health website at

 http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/index.htm

Search for  "Prepayment certificate"

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