Prescriptions: Universal Credit
(asked on 19th March 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many penalty notices have been issued by the NHSBSA in Dudley since the rollout of universal credit.
The number of prescription and dental penalty charge notices issued prior to universal credit (UC) rollout in Dudley by calendar year is provided in the following table:
Prior to the rollout of UC in Dudley by calendar year | Prescription penalty charge notice issued | Dental penalty charge notice issued |
2012 | Not held | 51 |
2013 | Not held | 720 |
2014 | 1,018 | 2,570 |
2015 | 4,340 | 2,937 |
2016 | 7,914 | 4,190 |
2017 - until June | 1,939 until June | 2,234 until June |
The number of prescription and dental penalty charge notices issued since the rollout of UC in Dudley by calendar year is provided in the following table:
After the rollout of UC in Dudley by calendar year | Prescription penalty charge notice issued | Dental penalty charge notice issued |
2017 – from July | 6,653 * from July | 2,517 * from July |
2018 | 4,467 | 4,667 |
Notes:
- The following postcodes were used to collate data for the Dudley area: B62, B63, B64, B65, DY1, DY2, DY3, DY4, DY5, DY6, DY7, DY8, DY9, WV1, WV4
- UC commenced roll out in the Dudley area from July 2017 so this date has been used in the data collation. The data represents Penalty Charge Notices sent out against all exemption types ticked by the patient where an exemption could not be verified.