Petition Make prescriptions free for all university students.

Currently university students born and studying in the UK have to pay £8.20 per prescription. This petition urges MPs to consider the financial situation of all students. While a student can apply for low-income exemption, the process is lengthy and unnecessary.

More details

Indeed, free prescriptions to students will be a costly initiative. However, the cost of treating those with worsened conditions is greater than the initial cost of treatment at the onset.

Take the moral perspective. With the recent uncapping of tuition fees, average debt of £50,000, and a lack of affordable housing, how much more of a financial burden can be placed on a generation?

To put it simply, how can a generation pay such debts if they are too ill to work due to untreated conditions?

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

96 signatures

Show on a map

10,000

Date closed 1 April 2016
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.