Health written question – answered at on 10 January 2006.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what guidance she has issued on whether patients in hospital should pay prescription charges for their medication.
Guidance revised and issued in October 2003 entitled, The Controls Assurance Standards" included a reminder to trusts that arrangements should be in place for the collection of prescription charges as specified by the National Health Service (Charges for drugs and appliances) Regulations 2000.
Regulation 5 (1) says an NHS trust, and NHS foundation trust or a primary care trust which supplies to a patient for the purposes of his treatment, drugs, otherwise than for administration at a hospital, or appliances, shall, subject to limited exemptions make and recover from the patient a charge of £6.50.
The information leaflet HC11, Help with Health Costs", which is freely available to patients and NHS staff, sets out when and where prescription charges should be made.
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