Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has announced a freeze on prescription charges in the UK, maintaining the cost at £9.90 per item for the first time in three years. This measure aims to alleviate financial pressure during a challenging cost-of-living crisis, projected to save patients around £18 million in 2026. Alongside this freeze, further initiatives, such as support for school uniforms and increasing the minimum wage, represent a broader strategy to ease economic burdens on families.
Today we are freezing prescription charges so that means they won't go over £10 and that is really significant, because very many people have to pay for prescriptions.
This Government's plan for change will always put working people first and our moves today to freeze prescription charges will put money back into the pockets of millions of patients.
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