{"id":43727,"date":"2023-03-19T17:17:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T17:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=43727"},"modified":"2023-03-19T17:17:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T17:17:46","slug":"plans-to-end-free-nhs-prescriptions-for-over-60s-not-going-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/03\/19\/plans-to-end-free-nhs-prescriptions-for-over-60s-not-going-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans to end free NHS prescriptions for over 60s \u2018not going ahead&#8217;"},"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-38733\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/prescription2-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/prescription2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/prescription2.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap-element-slot\">M<\/span>inisters have reportedly binned a proposal to increase the age when people can claim\u00a0<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/free-prescriptions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener tag\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">free NHS prescriptions<\/a>, with the age to remain at 60 rather than going up to 66.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/familyhealth\/plans-to-end-free-nhs-prescriptions-for-over-60s-not-going-ahead\/ar-AA18L0jS?ocid=msedgntp&amp;cvid=f6b4b4a1e862449187d9f98c076c53f7&amp;ei=228\">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>Ministers have reportedly binned a proposal to increase the age when people can claim\u00a0free NHS prescriptions, with the age to remain at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43727","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\/2023\/03\/prescription.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43727","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=43727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43728,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43727\/revisions\/43728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}