End Prescription Charges

ECPEngland wrote: »

Another issue with the prepayement cards is that people forget to renew them. It leaves people stuck paying full price until they can get another card. Also, sometimes people forget they've expired and end up with fines.

Well if you buy outright, yes.

But if you sign up for a DD option you can pay £10.40 a month for 10 months. And it will auto renew every year until you tell then to stop it. They even give you a months warning you are coming up for renewal and allow you to either cancel or renew.

I know because I'm on this option.

So basically for the price of a 1 item prescription per month you can be signed up and be covered for future proscriptions. So within 12 proscriptions, they are basically 'free'

As for people with long term illnesses not bothering to go to chemist and not getting thier tablets, they need to look into the future and re-access thier priorities.

unforeseen wrote: »

Or they can use their common sense and pay by DD. The prepayment card will then auto renew with no gap

You'd think it would be that simple but it ain't, my partner is on ESA and requires around £40 worth of prescriptions a month, as she is on contribution based ESA not Income based ESA she has to pay for prescriptions, and gets no help with dental treatment and eye tests or glasses, she had a pre payment card however, she missed a direct debit, now most organisations simply re apply for the money, not the case for the pre payment people, rather than re apply for the money a few days later, they just cancelled the card and sent a bill for £65 which covered the remaining payments and they won't issue a new card until the £65 is payed.