The single prescription charge will remain at £9.90, saving patients around £18m in the year 2025 to 2026. Three-month and annual prescriptions prepayment certificates will also be frozen. Individuals who are already exempt from paying the charge will continue to be so.
The prescription charge freeze builds on wider government action to tackle the cost of living crisis, aimed at easing financial pressures on families across the country.
Wes Streeting, secretary of state for health and social care, said, “This government’s ‘Plan for Change’ will always put working people first, and our moves today to freeze prescription charges will put money back into the pockets of millions of patients.
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