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Pharmacy

Patient Category: Charges:

Under 16

Free

Age 16 - 18

Free (if in full time education)

Age 19-59

Charges Applicable

Age 60 +

Free

Your partner receives:

  • Pension Credit-Guarantee Credit

Free

You or your partner receive -

  • Income Support
  • Income-based Job Seekers Allowance
  • Tax Credit
    (named on a NHS Exemption Certificate)

Free

Named in an NHS Low Income Scheme HC2 Certificate

Free

Named in an NHS Low Income Scheme HC3 Certificate

Charge applicable

Pregnant Women & Nursing Mothers

Free (must have exemption certificate from Practitioner Services)

A permanent fistula requiring continuous surgical dressing or an appliance


Free (must have exemption certificate from Practitioner Services)

Forms of hypoadrenalism for which specific substitution therapy is essential


Free (must have exemption certificate from Practitioner Services)

All diagnosed diabetics


Charge Applicable (unless you fall within the diabetes categories below)

Diabetes mellitus except where treatment is by diet alone


Free (must have exemption certificate from Practitioner Services)

Diabetes insipidus and other forms of hypopituitarism


Free (must have exemption certificate from Practitioner Services)

Hypoparathyroidism


Free (must have exemption certificate from Practitioner Services)

Myasthenia gravis


Free (must have exemption certificate from Practitioner Services)

Myxoedema or other conditions where supplemental thyroid hormone is necessary


Free (must have exemption certificate from Practitioner Services)

Epilepsy requiring continuous
anti-convulsion therapy


Free (must have exemption certificate from Practitioner Services)

Continuing physical disability which means you cannot go out without help from another person


Free (must have exemption certificate from Practitioner Services)

War / MoD Pensioner


Free (if the prescription is for the pensionable diability)

In possession of a valid prescription prepayment certificate

Free

You are prescribed contraceptives

Free

You are prescribed drugs for tuberculosis Free
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