The NHS is also seeing rising cases of COVID, winter vomiting bugs and respiratory (breathing) illnesses. To help prevent avoidable illness, protect vulnerable relatives and friends and ensure that vital NHS services are there for those who need them, local NHS leaders are calling on everyone in our area to follow this advice:
You have the right to be prescribed appropriate drugs and medicines.
If you are a pensioner, a child under 16 or under 19 and in full-time education, pregnant or a nursing mother, suffering from one of a number of specified individual conditions, or on income support or family credit, you have a right to get your medicines free.