April 29th 2025

By Ailsa Colquhoun

Prescription charges frozen at £9.90

NHS prescription charges in England will be frozen for the first time in three years, keeping the cost of a prescription at £9.90, DHSC has announced.

Three month and annual prescriptions prepayment certificates will also be frozen for 2025/26. A three-month prescription prepayment certificate (PPCs) will remain at £32.05 and the 12-month PPC at £114.50.

Annual charges can be made in instalments meaning those requiring regular medicines will be able to get them for just over £2 a week.

Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Wes Streeting said: “This freeze is only possible thanks to the government’s difficult but necessary choices at the Budget to bring in a £26 billion boost to the health service.”

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