Petition · past parliament
Make prescriptions free to all people with a lifetime illness.
Rejected
11 signatures
What the petition asks
Prescriptions should not have to be paid for by someone with a lifetime illness. At the current rate of £8.40 per item, paying this for just 30 years would cost the patient £3,024. In many instances people have more than one item this doubling or even trebling this cost to £9,072.
Why it was rejected
There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.
Timeline
| 2 Mar 2017 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 14 Mar 2017 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
11
Status
Rejected
Rejected
14 Mar 2017
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.