Weekly prescription charges

[Roseau18]

My student dc's psychiatrist wants her to collect her prescription medication weekly instead of monthly. Does this mean she will have to pay the full prescription charge every week? (i.e. is it going to cost her four times as much as it used to?)

Probably , but may be eligible fir free prescriptions on low income grounds or failing that a prepaid annual certificate.

Get a 3 monthly prescription card. Its something like £29 and you get as many prescriptions as you need without worrying then.

Or a yearly pre payment card, £10.20 a month and covers you for all prescriptions

It's only one monthly item so the prepayment certificate wasn't worth it when she was paying monthly. I didn't think to ask the care co-ordinator and she didn't ask the chemist when she picked up and paid yesterday (the first week).
Students aren't entitled to free prescriptions on low income grounds.

Is she on low income? Maybe have a look for a HC2 certificate? I used to work in pharmacy and a couple of students had applied for that (if i remember right). That was a little over year ago (maybe more) so I don't know if requirements have changed.

www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/nhs-low-income-scheme I think students can apply for it. What age is she too?

@Roseau18 yes they are. The problem that a lot of students have is that, as student finance is taken into account as income and due to the way student finance income is calculated, the system says that they have more money than they actually do. It's still worth applying though; many students get some help.
If she has a psych and a care coordinator do you think she would be eligible for PIP? Getting PIP as a student means that the student counts as "disabled" and so the system becomes a lot more generous in terms of how much money is considered enough to live on and which student moneys count as income.

Her care co-ordinator has just told her to apply for PIP. And I suppose she could try applying for an HC2 certificate but in both cases they will take a while to happen (if they do) and in the meantime she doesn't want to be paying a full prescription charge each week.