Free prescriptions
Everyone aged 60 or over benefits from free prescriptions. You may be able to get free prescriptions earlier than this if you’re on benefits or you suffer from certain health conditions, including cancer, diabetes and epilepsy.
The NHS has a handy calculator to check what help you can get with prescriptions and other NHS costs.
The cost of prescriptions – for those paying for them – rose on 1 May. A prescription now costs £9.90 for each medicine or appliance dispensed, an increase of 25 pence.