Prescription charges after 6th form

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My son is 18 and has just finished 6th form, school say he's officially on their books until 31st August. He takes regular medication which he hasn't had to pay for because of being in full time education. He plans to go to uni this year, does he still get free prescriptions then?

He started a summer job (full time hours) yesterday on a short term contract until 31st August, does this job cancel out the full time education?

He'll get free prescriptions until he turns 19 and is in full time education

you dont get free prescriptions when you are at uni usually unless you receieve a qualifiying benefit

Once it gets to Sept 1st he will have to pay.

But you can apply for an HC2 low income exemption. Pharmacies should have a form you can fill in (ours does).

What's his regular medication? Is it for an exempt condition?

He takes Concerta for ADHD

I think you can apply for free prescriptions under low income. Have a google. That’s what dd intends to do (19 in August and at university).

www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/nhs-low-income-scheme

Otherwise, do you know about prescription season tickets (or whatever they are called)?

If he doesn’t qualify for the low income scheme, he can buy a PrePaid Certificate or PPC. If you get one prescription per month, it’s cheaper to buy an annual PPC than to pay as you go. You can pay all at once or monthly by direct debit and if you have one it is unlimited prescriptions so if he gets sick and needs antibiotics, it’s covered.

do a yearly ppc. However I’m not sure adult adhd is a normal prescription cost I think it may be a lot higher

He gets free scripts while he is under 19 and in full time education. IME Uni students get free scripts until their 19th birthday, including the time between end of August and start of Uni.
He can claim free scripts afterwards with an HC1 BUT in our experience his loan counts as income. DC didn't have loans as we supported them , but the calculation assumed that they took out a full loan and claimed that they had given up the income and added it back in. Same applied to dental charges. We queried it, but they insisted they were correct.
Out of interest , there is a campaign just been launched to review the list of exempt conditions that attract free scripts. The Royal Pharmaceutical Society has written to the Health Committee to ask them to recommend the list is reviewed. twitter.com/hashtag/ReviewTheList?src=hashtag_click