HCS 1: Are You Entitled to Help with Health Costs?

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NHS HOSPITAL OUT-PATIENTS

You get free:

  • all medication given to take while you're being treated at the hospital. But you pay a prescription charge(s) for any medication you are prescribed to take at home, unless you're entitled to free NHS prescriptions;
  • medication supplied by a hospital to treat a sexually-transmissible infection ( STI);
  • medication supplied by a hospital to treat tuberculosis.

Page updated: Friday, October 24, 2008