Paying for prescriptions?

Nine_Lives

How are these charged?

I thought it was a price for whatever was on your sheet & not each item, but i could be & probably are wrong.

I picked up both mine & the wifes tonight. One item on mine - 1 charge of £7.65. There were 2 items on hers - blue & brown inhalers, so there were 2 charges of £7.65 for hers.

I questioned it but the woman said you pay per item, so i did. Just thought i'd check here.

Hermia

It's always been per item (well, as far back as I can remember). If you are on a medication that is in two parts you even get charged twice! If you use a lot of medication if might be worth getting a pre-paid certificate.

Torry_Quine

Yes its per item.

poppy_f1

move to scotland where its free

Fire_Fox

You pay one charge for each drug, if you get two strengths/ forms of the same drug on one script you only pay one charge. Sometimes you pay two charges for one medication because it has two active ingredients.

flutterbyuk25

poppy_f1 wrote: »

move to scotland where its free

Or move to Wales where it's also free!

But seriously do look into the pre-payment precription card, could save you a fortune.

victor2

If you're getting more than one repeat prescription item per month, then a PPC is worth getting as it will save you money (but can only be used for one person).
If you're happy to renew them every 3 months, get one and give a start date when your next prescription is due. As repeats are usually done for 4 weeks, you can get 4 off one certificate, with the last one coming in just before the 3 month certificate expires. Not as convenient as annual ones, but you can save more!

Dirty_Harry_the_2nd

K_P83 wrote: »

There were 2 items on hers - blue & brown inhalers, so there were 2 charges of £7.65 for hers.

I questioned it but the woman said you pay per item, so i did. Just thought i'd check here.

Asda Superstores are dispensing these at least a couple of pound cheaper per inhaler, maybe more.

barbiedoll

You can only buy the blue "reliever" inhalers at Asda at present, the brown "preventer" inhalers are still prescription-only items.

If you are paying for your prescriptions, ask your GP to write the prescription for double the amount. You may have to make a bit of a fuss though!

Nine_Lives

poppy_f1 wrote: »

move to scotland where its free

The missus is Scottish. Does that count? :beer:

lollipopsarah

Hi OP I had a review with the asthma nurse only yesterday and she very nicely changed my repeat prescription for the blue inhaler to (2) so next time I will get (2) one one prescription.
I had just mentioned that it seemed unfair that you could get 2 for £7 at asda (there isn't one near me) and she told me there were strict rules and you can only get them every 6 months over the counter.
As above look into the idea of a PPC.
xx