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Prescription pre-payment certificates

A Prescription Prepayment Certificate (PPC) lets you get as many NHS prescriptions as you need for a set price. If you regularly pay prescription charges, a PPC could save you money.

If you have to pay for four or more prescription items in three months, you may find it cheaper to buy a PPC.

The prescription charge in England is £9.90 per item.

A PPC costs:

  • £32.05 for 3 months
  • £114.50 for 12 months
     (or 10 Direct Debit instalments)

 

How to buy

Check if you are eligible for free prescriptions!

Find out if you’re entitled to free NHS prescriptions, NHS dental treatment and help with other NHS costs using NHS eligibility checker.

It usually takes 3 minutes to check.

If you claim free NHS prescriptions or NHS dental treatment when you’re not entitled, you could face a £100 penalty charge. Even if it’s by mistake.

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Prescriptions Exemption Criteria

You can get free NHS prescriptions if you:

  1. are under 16 years of age
  2. are 16 to 18 and in full-time education
  3. are 60 years of age or over
  4. have a valid maternity exemption certificate (are pregnant or have had a baby in the previous 12 months)
  5. have a valid medical exemption certificate 
  6. have a valid prescription pre-payment certificate
  7. hold a valid war pension exemption certificate
  8. a valid NHS certificate for full help with health costs (HC2)
  9. are prescribed free-of-charge contraceptives
  10. are receiving Income Support or income-related Employment and Support Allowance
  11. are receiving income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance or Universal Credit and meet the criteria
  12. are entitled to, or named on, a valid NHS tax credit exemption certificate – if you do not have a certificate, you can show your award notice; you qualify if you get Child Tax Credits, Working Tax Credits with a disability element (or both), and have income for tax credit purposes of £15,276 or less
  13. have a partner who gets Pension Credit Guarantee Credit (PCGC)
  14. are an NHS inpatient

Medical exemptions

People with certain medical conditions can get free NHS prescriptions if:

  • they have one of the conditions listed below, and
  • they hold a valid medical exemption certificate

Medical exemption certificates are issued on application to people who have:

  • a permanent fistula (for example, a caecostomy, colostomy, laryngostomy or ileostomy) requiring continuous surgical dressing or an appliance
  • a form of hypoadrenalism (for example, Addison’s disease) for which specific substitution therapy is essential
  • diabetes insipidus or other forms of hypopituitarism
  • diabetes mellitus, except where treatment is by diet alone
  • hypoparathyroidism
  • myasthenia gravis
  • myxoedema (hypothyroidism requiring thyroid hormone replacement)
  • epilepsy requiring continuous anticonvulsive therapy
  • a continuing physical disability that means the person cannot go out without the help of another person (temporary disabilities do not count, even if they last for several months)

They’re also issued for people undergoing treatment for cancer:

  • including the effects of cancer, or
  • the effects of current or previous cancer treatment