Prescription Dispensing Regulations

It is Government policy to levy a prescription charge for all NHS prescriptions, which has to be paid by the patient unless they qualify through one of the exemption criteria listed below.

Free Prescriptions

NHS criteria for patients eligible to receive free prescriptions these are:-

Under 16 years of age
Aged 16,17 or 18 and in full time education
60 years of age or over
Has a current maternity exemption certificate
Has a current medical exemption certificate
Has a current prescription pre-payment certificate
Has a War Pension exemption certificate
Is named on a current HC2 charges certificate
Was prescribed free-of-charge contraceptives
On income support
On income based job seeker's allowance
Named on a Working families' tax credit NHS Exemption certificate
Named on a disabled person's tax credit NHS exemption corticated

Prescription Delivery

NHS regulations prohibit us from dispensing to patients who live within a mile of Bourne. The only exception to this is patients who are registered with us as temporary residents.
Typically those patients outside this boundary can collect their medicine from our Practice Dispensary.
We offer the service of a Thursday delivery to the village post offices primarily to help the patients who are elderly/housebound and would otherwise have difficulty getting into Bourne to us to collect their medication from our Practice Dispensary. These patients would also be eligible for exemption from prescription charges