Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on what date the (a) NHS prescription form (FP10), (b) claims for NHS-funded sight tests (GOS 1) and (c) vouchers for glasses or contact lenses (GOS 3) will be amended to include a universal credit tick box.

The FP10 (National Health Service prescription form), GOS1 (NHS Sight Test form) and GOS3 (NHS Optical Voucher form) are being revised to include an exemption box for Universal Credit (UC). All forms will be printed in 2018 and will be circulated as soon as existing stocks are depleted. In the meantime, advice for patients in receipt of UC who meet criteria for help with health costs, should tick the box labelled Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance on the FP10/GOS1 or GOS3 and where possible, show their UC award notice as evidence of their entitlement.