{"id":29936,"date":"2021-07-02T07:39:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T07:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=29936"},"modified":"2021-07-02T07:39:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T07:39:23","slug":"no-more-free-prescriptions-until-youre-66-patients-face-paying-for-medication-past-the-current-age-limit-of-60-under-new-proposal-to-boost-income-after-covid-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2021\/07\/02\/no-more-free-prescriptions-until-youre-66-patients-face-paying-for-medication-past-the-current-age-limit-of-60-under-new-proposal-to-boost-income-after-covid-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"No more free prescriptions until you&#8217;re 66: Patients face paying for medication past the current age limit of 60 under new proposal to boost income after Covid pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29447\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/nhs-300x137.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/nhs-300x137.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/nhs-770x352.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/nhs-1024x468.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/nhs-500x229.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/nhs-360x165.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The age at which patients in England qualify for free\u00a0<a id=\"mol-d51d2950-dac6-11eb-b7b4-e31fb8e8bd74\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/nhs\/index.html\">NHS<\/a> prescriptions could rise from 60 to 66.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9747841\/Free-NHS-prescription-age-rise-66-Government-looks-bring-extra-300million.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The age at which patients in England qualify for free\u00a0NHS prescriptions could rise from 60 to 66.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/nhs.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29937,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29936\/revisions\/29937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}