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The Drug Tariff, also known as Drug Tariff price, is that amount that the
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in
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and
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and repays
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for generic prescription medications. It differs from
prescription charges In the United Kingdom most medicines are supplied via the National Health Service at either no charge, or for a fixed charge for up to three months' worth of any medicine. Charges for prescriptions for medicines and some medical appliances are pay ...
which are £9.90 per item/drug as of April 2024 unless exemptions apply. They are published monthly by NHS Prescription Services, and used as a reference in England and Wales by pharmacists or doctors dispensing in primary care. It covers such issues as the costs of prescription payments for patients, costs of appliances and blacklisted medicines.


See also

*
Pharmacopeia A pharmacopoeia, pharmacopeia, or pharmacopoea (or the typographically obsolete rendering, ''pharmacopœia''), meaning "drug-making", in its modern technical sense, is a reference work containing directions for the identification of compound med ...
*
Pharmacy Pharmacy is the science and practice of discovering, producing, preparing, dispensing, reviewing and monitoring medications, aiming to ensure the safe, effective, and affordable use of medication, medicines. It is a miscellaneous science as it ...
* Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain


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NHS Drug Tariff (England & Wales)
Pharmacy in the United Kingdom National Health Service (England) NHS Wales {{NHS-stub