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date	04/09/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Prescriptions: Exemptions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) patients were issued with fines by the NHS Business Authority as a result of failure to renew an exemption certificate and (b) of those fines were issued to patients with long-term medical conditions.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	7802
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>This information is not collected by the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA). The checks that the NHSBSA undertake confirm whether a patient holds a valid exemption as declared on the reverse of the prescription form. It does not record the reason for a patient not having an exemption in place and neither is a check made as to whether an exemption certificate has previously been held by the patient.</p><p> </p><p>The NHSBSA does not know whether the patient being issued a fine has a long term condition. Only information relating to the exemption category declared at the time of collecting the prescription is captured.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 11/09/2017 16:01:37 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

756943

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Chronic Illnesses: Prescriptions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans to create a lifelong prescription exemption certificate for patients who have long-term medical conditions which will last for life.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	7801
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to create a lifelong prescription exemption certificate for patients with a long-term medical condition. Medical exemption certificates are valid for a period of five years because, although many of the conditions on the list are lifelong, some can resolve over time and the patient’s entitlement should be reviewed by their clinician periodically. For operational ease and to provide simplicity for patients and clinicians, the five year validity period applies to all conditions.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 11/09/2017 14:29:38 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

756944

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Prescriptions: Exemptions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many of the fines issued by the NHS Business Authority in 2016-17 have been paid.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	7778
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>In 2016/17 the NHS Business Services Authority issued 1 million fines with a total value of £85.7 million. Approximately 18% of the total value requested was recovered during this period which amounts to £15.5 million.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 11/09/2017 15:53:03 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan