WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING CASE STUDIES IS ENTITLED TO FREE PRESCRIPTIONS?


Client Number 1:

Couple. Both on IB of around £168 a week. Both have mental health problems requiring treatement and one has physical problems requiring regular treatment. They have no savings or investments and contribute to rent and council tax at around £39 a week.


Client Number 2:

Single parent of two children. No disabilites in household. Client works part-time and receives child maintenance income, is an owner-occupier with no housing costs and has savings in excess of £44,000. Exlcuding investment income, total weekly income is approx £358. council tax is £22 a week.

Married woman, late 50s, reasonable amount of capital, reasonable earnings (variable), husband 60, well off, owner occupiers (no mortgage). He has ischaemic heart disease and hypertension, takes 5 separate medications daily, has had a stent. She has hypothyroidism adn takes one tablet a day. She gets free prescriptions on medical grounds, he does on age grounds. Neither exactly short of cash!