NHS Treatment details
Did you know…
If you are aged 16,17 or 18 in full-time education, then you are entitled to the following NHS items and services free of charge: NHS prescriptions, NHS dental treatment, and sight tests.
Did You Know…
unless you’re under 19, full-time students aren’t automatically exempt from charges for prescriptions, dental treatment, eye tests, glasses and certain other types of treatment on the NHS?
Did You Know…
that it is still possible to claim exemption of some or all of the charges on account of a low income, eligibility for benefits, pregnancy and recent birth, or your age?
Did You Know…
too many students don’t claim these exemptions and pay for treatment when they don’t need to? Do it NOW!
Did You Know…
students with a low income - in most cases this means less than £8,000 in savings or income - need only to fill out an HC1 form to claim full or partial exemption. HC1 forms are available from Post Offices, benefits agencies, some GPs’ surgeries, your students’ union RAW centre Student Services.
To order a form online click this link http://www.ppa.org.uk/ppa/HC1_form.htm
As a result of a recent bill through Parliament to grant all students exemption form paying for prescriptions…
Scottish students have expressed their extreme disappointment that they have not been immediately exempted from paying prescription charges, following December’s Government announcement to phase out prescriptions charges in 2011.
Students across Scotland and NUS Scotland fundamentally believes that access to prescription drugs and treatments should be given on the basis of need, as determined by professionals, and not on the basis of income, wealth or occupation.
Students in Scotland should not be forced into making a choice between their next prescription and their next meal, but this is unfortunately a reality for many students in Scotland today.
NUS
"Students in
“Today's announcement shows that priority groups, such as students on extremely low incomes, are not being treated as a priority in the Government's policies, and we demand that the Government re-thinks the timescale of these proposals to ensure that students, who are amongst the groups in society in greatest need, can access prescription charge benefits the soonest."
For more information contact Michaela mwoodhouse@qmu.ac.uk or NUS Scotland on enquiries@nus-scoltand.org.uk
