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FREE NHS PRESCRIPTIONS

You can get free NHS prescriptions if at the time the prescription is dispensed you:

• are aged 60 or over;
• are under 16;
• are in full-time education and aged 16, 17 or 18;
• are pregnant or have had a baby in the previous 12 months and have a valid exemption certificate;
• have a listed medical condition and have a valid exemption certificate;
• have a continuing physical disability which means you cannot go out without help from another person and have a valid exemption certificate;
• are an NHS in-patient;
• are getting, or your partner gets:
  Income Support, or
  Income-based Jobseeker's Allowance
  (Incapacity Benefit and Disability Living Allowance do not count, as they are income-related), or
  Pension Credit Guarantee Credit;
• are entitled to, or named on, a valid NHS tax credit exemption certificate;
• are named on a valid HC2 certificate issued under the terms of the NHS Low Income Scheme;
• are a war pensioner, the prescription is for your pensionable disablement and you have a valid war pension exemption certificate.

The following items are supplied free:

• medication administered at a hospital;
• prescribed contraceptives;
• medication personally administered by a GP;
• medication supplied by a hospital for the treatment of a sexually transmissible infection ( STI).

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