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The Drug Tariff, also known as Drug Tariff price, is that amount that the NHS in England and Wales and repays pharmacies for generic prescription medications. [1] It differs from prescription charges which are £9.90 per item/drug as of April 2024 unless exemptions apply.
However, people may be exempt from charges in various exemption categories. Charges were abolished by NHS Wales in 2007, Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland in 2010 and by NHS Scotland in 2011. In 2010/11, in England, £450 million was raised through these charges, some 0.5% of the total NHS budget. [1]
Maintained by the Department of Health's (DH) Payment by Results team; the High Cost Drugs List was a catalogue of drugs licensed for use in the NHS that are excluded from the Payment by Results (PbR) tariff. Although reviewed annually; the list required updates to be published infrequently.
In the English National Health Service and NHS Wales the Blacklist (officially Schedule 1 to the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Prescription of Drugs etc.) Regulations 2004) is a list published in Part XVIIIA of the NHS Drug Tariff denoting medicines and/or specific brands of medicines that cannot be prescribed on ...
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The NHS was established within the differing nations of the United Kingdom through differing legislation, and as such there has never been a singular British healthcare system, instead there are 4 health services in the United Kingdom; NHS England, the NHS Scotland, HSC Northern Ireland and NHS Wales, which were run by the respective UK government ministries for each home nation before falling ...