Gov.pay Prescription payment request

Dear Patient,

Please find enclosed your medicines prescribed at your recent appointment.

If you usually pay for your prescribed medicines please could we kindly ask you to go to CUH Gov.pay (opens in a new tab)

and follow the instructions using your hospital number (MRN) and initials as a reference.

Alternatively, scan this code on your smart phone to go directly to the website

NHS prescription charges are a contribution to NHS funding and are unrelated to the cost of your medicine(s). There is one charge per prescription item dispensed.

1 prescription charge = £9.90

2 prescription charges = £18.80

3 prescription charges = £29.70

4 prescription charges = £39.60

5 prescription charges = £49.50

You will receive email notification of payment.

If you experience any problems related to the online payment, please contact cuh.outpatientprescriptioncharges@nhs.net sending the email notification of payment and/or your name and hospital number.

If you are in any of the following groups you do not need to make a payment.

• Hold a prepayment certificate
• Hold a Medical exemption certificate.
• Hold a maternity exemption certificate.

Currently receiving any of the following:

• Income support
• Income based jobseeker’s allowance
• Income related employment and support allowance
• Pension credit guarantee credit
• Universal credit and meets the criteria.
• Valid NHS tax credit exemption certificate
• Valid NHS certificate for full help with health costs.

If you are unsure whether you are exempt you can check your eligibility by accessing the link below.

Check what help you could get to pay for NHS costs - NHSBSA (opens in a new tab) – it takes 3 minutes to check