@Mark the Spark I suspect that you started with diabetes as a child, when you were eligible for free prescriptions. Personally I believe you should have received a letter when you turned 18 alerting you to the new adult requirement. Without that how would you know. Diagnosed at 54, the hospital team gave me the initial paperwork and I kept up to date. Now beyond 60 it’s done anyway. What’s amazing is it’s taken them all these years to catch up with you. Showing that there must be widespread fraud occurring every day. (Not you obviously)
This is a fair assessment on the situation.
I was diagnosed as a child & led to believe it was a “given” when I hit 18? Due to the nature of my condition & prescription (insulin & wot not.) as a matter of course encouraged/directed to tick the exempt box on the paperwork by the chemist.
I went on for years like this till I saw a topic on this forum 10 years ago? (Correction. 8 years back. My second card expires in 26.)
Funny enough. About the same time as my first application. I noticed a sign in the chemist notifying the stance on exemption certs.
& how much the NHS looses on fraudulent claims?
It’s an easy mistake to make. I can’t work out why the exempt certs aren’t flagged & issued automatically (with the yearly med reviews?) then issued a little like bank cards…?
