Printed age exemption extended
Temporary arrangements under which computer printed
National Health Service prescriptions, which show the patient’s age as
under 16 years or 60 years and over are accepted as exempt from prescription
charges even when a valid exemption declaration has not been made, has
been extended to May 2002.
The Prescription Pricing Authority says that this
has been done in order to maintain the impetus for improving completion
rates for valid exemption declarations. It adds that the extended concession
does not mean that responsibility to obtain valid declarations has been
lifted from community pharmacists.
The arrangement will be subject to continuous review
and pharmacy contractors will continue to receive reports from the PPA
on how many prescriptions without declarations have been submitted for
payment as charge exempt prescriptions.
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