Overview
- The per-item charge will remain £9.90 for the next prescription year.
- Three- and 12-month Prescription Prepayment Certificates stay at £32.05 and £114.50, with the HRT certificate also frozen.
- The government estimates the freeze will save patients about £12 million next year.
- Pharmacy leaders welcomed the step but urged ministers to abolish charges, warning some patients skip medicines due to cost.
- England remains the only UK nation that levies most prescription fees, extending a freeze first introduced in April.