Recurring prescription and PPC

Biggles

andreauk2009 wrote: »

Does the £7.40 cost apply per item basis even if in a prescription there are 3 items?

I read this is the maximum items that can be prescribed in a month. Let's say the doctor give me three pack of pills. Should I pay £7.40 only or £22.20?

There's no maximum to the number of items that can be prescribed on one form - when you think about it, it depends on how many drugs you are taking.

Doctors do, however, limit the quantity of each item, in order to prevent people building up huge stocks of medicines which later get thrown away, so normally each item will be a month's supply of the drug. Sometimes a month's supply is three packs, sometimes it's one (it depends on the pack size and how many of them you take each day). You still pay £7.40 per item.

hartcjhart

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malc_b

Biggles wrote: »

Doctors do, however, limit the quantity of each item, in order to prevent people building up huge stocks of medicines which later get thrown away, so normally each item will be a month's supply of the drug.

It depends on the doctor and there is no NHS limit despite what some doctors might tell you. If you are on a medication for life say then the doctor could prescribe 180 days supply and that would still be one item.

And HRT is typically 3 months supply and can count as 2 items because there are 2 types of tablet per month (if it is that sort of HRT).

andreauk2009

Thanks for the clarification. Although I'm not critically ill (thanks to God), I will know something it may be useful in the future * hopefully later than earlier.