Submitted by Ella Gunton on Sunday 3rd November 2024
Published on Wednesday 13th November 2024
Current status: Open
Open until: Tuesday 13th May 2025
Current Signatures: 66
(count is updated approximately hourly)
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Allow for all students in full-time education to receive free prescriptions.
To introduce a bill to allow for all full-time students to receive free prescriptions, currently it stops at 18 years old but this excludes full-time university students who are older and mature students.
Prescriptions are a big expense for students who rely on government loans to fund university. Full-time students who are 18 receive free prescriptions but this stops when they turn 19. This means many students have to work out if they can afford their prescriptions, many university students suffer from health conditions which require medication but are having to re buy it monthly; which is extremely costly. Prescriptions currently cost £9.90 which adds up each month.
If you want to sign this petition (as opposed to merely discuss it), you need to do that on the government's e-Petitions website.
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