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Prepayment Certificate

Currently until March 2011:-

£104.00 per year (14.4 charges)

£28.25 per 3 months (3.9 charges)

Prepayment certificates:

 

·     If you have to pay for your prescriptions, it is usually cheaper to buy a prepayment certificate for either 3 months or one year.

·     If you only need to collect one item a month and you are given 28 day prescriptions you will need 13 prescriptions for a year (currently £93.60), so it will cost you more to buy the prepayment certificate.

·     If you pick up 2 items monthly you would currently pay £187.20 in the year. So if you buy a prepayment certificate you will currently save £83.20 and also you will get any extra prescriptions such as antibiotics free.

In England there are a number of ways to buy a prepayment certificate:

· over the phone from the NHS Business Services Authority Tel: 0845 850 0030 and you can pay by credit card

· from the NHS Business Services Authority website  Website: www.ppa.org.uk/ppa/ppccd/patient.do

· from the pharmacist

· from your Primary Care Trust

 

Contact details for the NHS Business Services Authority are:

NHS Business Services Authority
PPC Issue Office
PO Box 854
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE99 2DE

Tel: 0845 850 0030
E-mail: ppc1@ppa.nhs.uk

Website: http://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/HealthCosts/2131.aspx

· Scotland you can purchase a PPC from most pharmacies or dispensing doctor practices, or you can apply for a PPC by post using form EC95. The form is available from pharmacies, NHS Boards or NHS National Services Scotland Practitioner Services Division's area offices. It tells you what to do. For further information, click here.

· Wales from 1 April 2007 people registered with a GP in Wales, or resident in Wales but have a GP in England and have an accompanying entitlement card, and get their prescription from a pharmacist in Wales, will receive their prescriptions free of charge.

· Northern Ireland you can purchase a PPC from most pharmacies.