{"id":18922,"date":"2022-06-17T22:07:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T17:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?p=18922"},"modified":"2022-06-17T22:07:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T17:07:59","slug":"prescriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2022\/06\/17\/prescriptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of people may lose access to free prescriptions as a result of changes to the State Pension."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Health Secretary&#8217;s proposals, older Britons may be denied free medication that previous generations were entitled to, while thousands remain unaware that they are eligible for free NHS prescriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more than a half-century, Brits over the age of 60 have had free access to NHS-prescribed medicines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, a proposed prescription change by Health Secretary Sajid Javid could force millions of older Britons to pay for their essential medication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The change would tie the eligibility for free prescriptions to the State Pension age, which is currently 66 but is set to rise even higher. This could imply that younger Britons will have to wait until they&#8217;re older.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because this change only affects England, all prescriptions in Scotland and Wales will remain free. Similarly, this change will only affect those who automatically qualify for free prescriptions due to their age; those who qualify due to illness or disability will continue to receive their medication for free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Health Secretary&#8217;s proposals, older Britons may be denied free medication that previous<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[591],"tags":[1511],"class_list":["post-18922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-prescriptions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Thousands of people may lose access to free prescriptions,<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The change would tie the eligibility for free prescriptions to the State Pension age, which is currently 66 but is set to rise even higher.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2022\/06\/17\/prescriptions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thousands of people may lose access to free prescriptions,\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The change would tie the eligibility for free prescriptions to the State Pension age, which is currently 66 but is set to rise even higher.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2022\/06\/17\/prescriptions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rapid News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-06-17T17:07:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-06-17T17:07:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/1_NHS-ConfedExpo.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"maria\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/\",\"name\":\"Rapid News\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2022\/06\/17\/prescriptions\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2022\/06\/17\/prescriptions\/\",\"name\":\"Thousands of people may lose access to free prescriptions,\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2022-06-17T17:07:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-06-17T17:07:59+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/#\/schema\/person\/45803d9047a4602fb1c72ac388913257\"},\"description\":\"The change would tie the eligibility for free prescriptions to the State Pension age, which is currently 66 but is set to rise even higher.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2022\/06\/17\/prescriptions\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2022\/06\/17\/prescriptions\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2022\/06\/17\/prescriptions\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Thousands of people may lose access to free prescriptions as a result of changes to the State Pension.\"}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/#\/schema\/person\/45803d9047a4602fb1c72ac388913257\",\"name\":\"maria\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9183437264b2c8256d42b9d888103f03014889033e9895cd818b256037c5d603?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9183437264b2c8256d42b9d888103f03014889033e9895cd818b256037c5d603?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"maria\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/author\/maria\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Thousands of people may lose access to free prescriptions,","description":"The change would tie the eligibility for free prescriptions to the State Pension age, which is currently 66 but is set to rise even higher.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2022\/06\/17\/prescriptions\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Thousands of people may lose access to free prescriptions,","og_description":"The change would tie the eligibility for free prescriptions to the State Pension age, which is currently 66 but is set to rise even higher.","og_url":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2022\/06\/17\/prescriptions\/","og_site_name":"Rapid News","article_published_time":"2022-06-17T17:07:56+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-06-17T17:07:59+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":675,"url":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/1_NHS-ConfedExpo.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"maria","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/#website","url":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/","name":"Rapid News","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2022\/06\/17\/prescriptions\/#webpage","url":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2022\/06\/17\/prescriptions\/","name":"Thousands of people may lose access to free prescriptions,","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/#website"},"datePublished":"2022-06-17T17:07:56+00:00","dateModified":"2022-06-17T17:07:59+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/#\/schema\/person\/45803d9047a4602fb1c72ac388913257"},"description":"The change would tie the eligibility for free prescriptions to the State Pension age, which is currently 66 but is set to rise even higher.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2022\/06\/17\/prescriptions\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2022\/06\/17\/prescriptions\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2022\/06\/17\/prescriptions\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Thousands of people may lose access to free prescriptions as a result of changes to the State Pension."}]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/#\/schema\/person\/45803d9047a4602fb1c72ac388913257","name":"maria","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/#personlogo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9183437264b2c8256d42b9d888103f03014889033e9895cd818b256037c5d603?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9183437264b2c8256d42b9d888103f03014889033e9895cd818b256037c5d603?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"maria"},"url":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/author\/maria\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","cream-magazine-thumbnail-2":"","cream-magazine-thumbnail-3":"","cream-magazine-thumbnail-4":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"maria","author_link":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/author\/maria\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17945,"url":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2022\/06\/03\/instalment-certificates-for-nhs-recommendations\/","url_meta":{"origin":18922,"position":0},"title":"Instalment certificates for NHS recommendations can save you hundreds of dollars.","date":"June 3, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"In the United Kingdom, the standard prescription charge per item is \u00a39.35, making a long-term medical prescription an expensive necessity for some. If you fall into this category, purchasing an NHS \"season pass\" could save you hundreds of dollars on your medication. Following a medical diagnosis, the cost of a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Health&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7826,"url":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2021\/03\/30\/lenny-henry-asks-britons-to-get-covid-19-jab-or-be-left-behind\/","url_meta":{"origin":18922,"position":1},"title":"Lenny Henry asks Britons to get COVID-19 jab or be left behind","date":"March 30, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Actor and comedian Lenny Henry and other prominent figures on Tuesday urged Black Britons to take the COVID-19 vaccine after figures showed a big lag in those from Britain\u2019s Black community having the shot compared to the rest of the population. The Office for National Statistics said on Monday that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Entertainment&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Lenny-Henry-asks-Britons-to-get-COVID-19-jab-or-be-left-behind-rapidnews-dailyrapid","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Lenny-Henry-asks-Britons-to-get-COVID-19-jab-or-be-left-behind-rapidnews.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":18963,"url":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2022\/06\/17\/covid-cases\/","url_meta":{"origin":18922,"position":2},"title":"COVID cases are growing again with a 40% increase last week.","date":"June 17, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Two new faster-spreading Omicron variants are taking over in the UK, causing an increase in infections. According to the Office for National Statistics, 1.4 million Britons were infected with the virus last week \u2013 roughly one in every 50 people. It is a 43% increase from the previous week and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Health&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":17540,"url":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2022\/05\/28\/patients-who-are-afraid-of-monkeypox-are-overburdened-in-the-nhs\/","url_meta":{"origin":18922,"position":3},"title":"Patients who are afraid of monkeypox are overburdened in the NHS.","date":"May 28, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"'NHS 111 is overburdened because everyone who gets a rash thinks they have monkeypox,' said one source. As the virus spreads to over 100 Britons, the health official warns that further patients are at risk due to overburdened helplines. The medical helpline NHS 111 is being swamped by guests with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogs&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":18754,"url":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2022\/06\/14\/britons\/","url_meta":{"origin":18922,"position":4},"title":"Many Britons face a pay cut in real terms due to inflation.","date":"June 14, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The Office for National Statistics (ONS) published official data today showing that pay increased by 4.2 percent in the three months to April, excluding bonuses. However, inflation is currently at 9% and is expected to rise further, putting additional strain on people's finances. In real terms, wages are down 2.2\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":17907,"url":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2022\/06\/02\/nearly-400-britons-break-the-world-record-for-the-most-mermaids\/","url_meta":{"origin":18922,"position":5},"title":"Nearly 400 Britons break the world record for the most mermaids ever gathered in one place.","date":"June 2, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"On Thursday, hundreds of people broke the world record for the largest-ever gathering of mermaids. The 2022 Mermaid Challenge in Plymouth, Devon, attracted 388 \"merfolk,\" including men, women, and children. It breaks the previous Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of mermaids and mermen, which stood at 300. Participants\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogs&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18929,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18922\/revisions\/18929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}