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<p>The number of National Health Service prescription charge penalty charge notices
issued between September 2015 and August 2016, which is the most recent 12-month period
for which we have complete data, was 780,953. Where no response was received to the
initial penalty charge notice a follow up surcharge letter was issued to the patient.
For the same period a total of 333,508 surcharge letters were issued.</p><p>The value
of the recovered prescription income in this period was £2,556,941, and the value
of the income from penalty charges and surcharges was £8,678,911 and £745,830, respectively.</p><p>Since
taking over the administration of the Prescription Exemption Checking Service in September
2014, the NHS Business Services Authority has not issued any court proceedings for
debt recovery in relation to NHS prescription charges and penalties.</p>
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