Prescriptions: Universal Credit

(asked on 10th November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to ensure that there is a box on prescription forms to indicate that the recipient is eligible for universal credit.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 15th November 2017

National Health Service prescription forms (FP10) and claims for NHS funded sight tests (GOS 1) and for vouchers for glasses or contact lenses (GOS 3) will be amended to include a Universal Credit box in due course. Some NHS Help with Health Costs claim forms, for example HC5 refund claim forms, have already been amended to include a specific tick box to enable Universal Credit recipients to claim entitlement. All versions of dentistry claim forms were updated on 1 April 2016, to include a tick box for Universal Credit.

A patient can currently make a claim for entitlement if in receipt of Universal Credit by ticking the “gets income based Jobseekers Allowance” on relevant forms. Guidance for both the public and healthcare practitioners (such as pharmacists, dentists and, opticians) has been included on NHS Choices with links from the Universal Credit webpages on Gov.uk.

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