Dental and Prescription Charges Set to Increase

Prescription fees and dental charges will increase from 1st April.
Prescription fees will go up by 20p to £7.40 and dental charges will increase, with band 1 treatments going up to £17, band 2 treatments increasing to £47 and band 3 treatments increasing to £204.
The announcement has been greeted with anger, just days after it was revealed that dental charges will be frozen in Wales and prescription charges will be scrapped in Scotland. Dental charges are also the highest in England.
A spokeswoman from the Department of Health said that the Government was investing an additional 10.7 billion pounds in the NHS and claimed that abolishing prescription charges in England would leave a shortfall in NHS funding of 450 million pounds a year.