Prescriptions: Fees and Charges
(asked on 17th October 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to his answer of 13 November 2017 to Question 111406 on Prescriptions: Fees and Charges, how many penalty charges have been issued in respect of wrongly claimed NHS prescriptions in each month since September 2017 for which figures are available.
The following table shows the number of penalty charge notices (PCNs) issued from October 2017 to September 2018.
Month | Total PCNs Issued |
October 2017 | 106,249 |
November 2017 | 105,884 |
December 2017 | 47,982 |
January 2018 | 90,075 |
February 2018 | 110,014 |
March 2018 | 110,013 |
April 2018 | 116,518 |
May 2018 | 109,339 |
June 2018 | 93,243 |
July 2018 | 124,245 |
August 2018 | 121,775 |
September 2018 | 119,466 |
Source: NHS Business Services Authority