The types of prescription provided free of charge in England include:
- medication given to you to take at a hospital or an NHS walk-in centre
- medication administered to you personally by a GP
- medication to treat a sexually transmissible infection (STI) supplied at an NHS trust or foundation trust, or by a service arranged by an NHS organisation or a local authority under the NHS Act 2006, or supplied under a patient group direction
- medication to treat a mental disorder supplied to a person subject to a supervised community treatment order, provided by an NHS trust or foundation trust, or a service arranged by an NHS organisation under the NHS Act 2006 or under a patient group direction
- prescribed contraceptives
- recently released prisoners, where the prescription has been issued by the prison doctor
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