The allegations of prescription in England will be frozen this year – for the first time since 2022.

The government has announced that the fee for a single item will be at £ 9.90 in 2025-26.

Three months and annual recipes will also be frozen and the current exemption will continue. Tips in the rest of the UK apply only in England.

About nine out of 10 tips in England are already free, with children, more than the 60s, pregnant women, people with some medical conditions and low income people give exemption from payment.

The three -month prescription prepament certificate is priced at £ 32.05 while the 12 -month certificate is priced at £ 114.50.

Rachel Power, Chief Executive Officer of the patients’ association, who campaigns to improve health and social care, said it was a “positive step” to freeze the allegations.

But he warned that he did much less to deal with the “deep inequalities” described as an old system.

He said that the medical relaxation criteria had been almost unchanged since the late 1960s, about three million people in England lived with long -term conditions, which were not eligible for discounts as they were not recognized 60 years ago or people were rarely survived in adults.

Currently the conditions that are not in the medical exemption list include Parkinson’s disease, cystic fibrosis and motor neurone disease.

“We urge the government to go beyond – to fully review the medical exemption list and prescription allegations,” said Ms. Power.

Health is a developed sector of the government. The fees of leaflets were abolished in 2007 under the powers available by North Ireland in 2010 and Scotland in 2011 under the powers available to their respective governments.