PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Prescriptions: Fees and Charges (15 March 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to amend the list of long-term and orphan diseases which qualify for free prescriptions; and when he last consulted (a) patients, (b) doctors and (c) those in the (i) pharmaceutical and (ii) health industries on that subject.

Asked by:
Mr James Frith (Labour)

We have no current plans to amend the list of long-term and orphan diseases which qualify for free prescriptions. The last consultation on this issue was as part of Professor Sir Ian Gilmore’s review in 2008, which included consultation with patients, the public and general practitioners.

Answered by:
Steve Brine (Conservative)
23 March 2018