{ "name": "privatehealthcosts.co.uk NHS Statutory Patient Charges", "title": "NHS Statutory Patient Charges", "url": "https://privatehealthcosts.co.uk/datasets/nhs-statutory-patient-charges/", "csv": "https://privatehealthcosts.co.uk/datasets/nhs-statutory-patient-charges.csv", "markdown": "https://privatehealthcosts.co.uk/datasets/nhs-statutory-patient-charges/index.md", "computed_at": "2026-10-21", "license": "https://privatehealthcosts.co.uk/terms", "headline": "The NHS Statutory Patient Charges carries 5 published figures read from 4 sources' own pages, from 9.90 to 326.70 GBP, read 17 October 2026.", "quotes": [ "The NHS Statutory Patient Charges carries 5 published figures read from 4 sources' own pages, from 9.90 to 326.70 GBP, read 17 October 2026.", "4 of the 6 named sources read in full publish a figure; 2 publish none, read 17 October 2026.", "NHS Statutory Patient Charges, charge prescription: median 9.90 GBP across 1 source, read 17 October 2026.", "NHS Statutory Patient Charges, charge dental-band-1: median 27.90 GBP across 1 source, read 17 October 2026.", "NHS Statutory Patient Charges, charge optical-voucher-single-vision: median 15.81 GBP across 1 source, read 17 October 2026.", "NHS Statutory Patient Charges, charge dental-band-3: median 326.70 GBP across 1 source, read 17 October 2026.", "NHS Statutory Patient Charges, charge dental-band-2: median 76.60 GBP across 1 source, read 17 October 2026." ], "citation": "\"privatehealthcosts.co.uk NHS Statutory Patient Charges\", updated 2026-10-21, https://privatehealthcosts.co.uk/datasets/nhs-statutory-patient-charges/.", "changed_since": null, "national": { "unit": "GBP", "n": 5, "median": 27.9, "min": 9.9, "max": 326.7, "p25": 12.855, "p75": 201.64999999999998, "mean": 91.382, "units": { "GBP": 5 }, "published_sources": 4, "named_sources": 8, "read_sources": 6, "not_published": 2, "published_share": 0.667 }, "by_axis": { "charge": { "prescription": { "GBP": { "n": 1, "median": 9.9, "min": 9.9, "max": 9.9, "p25": 9.9, "p75": 9.9, "mean": 9.9 } }, "dental-band-1": { "GBP": { "n": 1, "median": 27.9, "min": 27.9, "max": 27.9, "p25": 27.9, "p75": 27.9, "mean": 27.9 } }, "optical-voucher-single-vision": { "GBP": { "n": 1, "median": 15.81, "min": 15.81, "max": 15.81, "p25": 15.81, "p75": 15.81, "mean": 15.81 } }, "dental-band-3": { "GBP": { "n": 1, "median": 326.7, "min": 326.7, "max": 326.7, "p25": 326.7, "p75": 326.7, "mean": 326.7 } }, "dental-band-2": { "GBP": { "n": 1, "median": 76.6, "min": 76.6, "max": 76.6, "p25": 76.6, "p75": 76.6, "mean": 76.6 } } } }, "rows": [ { "source": "NHS Business Services Authority, help with prescription costs", "url": "https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/help-nhs-prescription-costs", "figure": "£9.90 ", "value": 9.9, "unit": "GBP", "vat": null, "axis": { "charge": "prescription" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-10-17", "quote": "The NHS prescription charge is currently £9.90 for each prescribed item.", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "5b63e27ac0462823059358e1a99a996310cdc6933fd9816e942c70bf2b2a6f8d" }, { "source": "NHS dental charges, bands 1-3 (England)", "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/dentists/dental-costs/understanding-nhs-dental-charges/", "figure": "£27.90", "value": 27.9, "unit": "GBP", "vat": null, "axis": { "charge": "dental-band-1" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-10-17", "quote": "If you need a mix of treatments from the same band, you’ll only pay the band charge once. Band 1: £27.90", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "19d5ff045b88abc5ff0e3143eae652faab060fbdabafecf5db10545f59da2c94" }, { "source": "Free NHS sight tests and optical vouchers", "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/opticians/free-nhs-eye-tests-and-optical-vouchers/", "figure": "£15.81 ", "value": 15.81, "unit": "GBP", "vat": null, "axis": { "charge": "optical-voucher-single-vision" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-10-17", "quote": "Complex lens vouchers are a contribution towards the cost of these lenses – currently £15.81 for single vision lenses and £40.57 for bifocal lenses.", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "2328f6aa1c7edbb5f3e0ed176d13389610017914c5c5deeb1234b0ca219e8aa4" }, { "source": "The National Health Service (Dental Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 2025", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/310/made", "figure": "£326.70", "value": 326.7, "unit": "GBP", "vat": null, "axis": { "charge": "dental-band-3" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-10-17", "quote": "in paragraphs (3) and (4), for “£319.10” substitute “£326.70”.", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "8470891c2a978e934a0cbb2ab9da44da58c81c9964cd4b80803aa1b04f6f689d" }, { "source": "NHS dental charges, bands 1-3 (England)", "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/dentists/dental-costs/understanding-nhs-dental-charges/", "figure": "£76.60", "value": 76.6, "unit": "GBP", "vat": null, "axis": { "charge": "dental-band-2" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-10-17", "quote": "Scaling is usually included in Band 1 (£27.90), but extensive treatment, or treatment for complex gum problems may be charged as a Band 2 (£76.60) treatment.", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "19d5ff045b88abc5ff0e3143eae652faab060fbdabafecf5db10545f59da2c94" } ], "not_published": [ { "source": "NHS prescription charges (England)", "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/prescriptions/nhs-prescription-charges/", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-26", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "Help with health costs (Northern Ireland)", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/help-health-costs", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" } ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/prescriptions/nhs-prescription-charges/", "label": "NHS prescription charges (England)", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/dentists/dental-costs/understanding-nhs-dental-charges/", "label": "NHS dental charges, bands 1-3 (England)", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/help-nhs-prescription-costs", "label": "NHS Business Services Authority, help with prescription costs", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/310/made", "label": "The National Health Service (Dental Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 2025", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/opticians/free-nhs-eye-tests-and-optical-vouchers/", "label": "Free NHS sight tests and optical vouchers", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.gov.wales/nhs-dental-charges", "label": "NHS dental charges (Wales)", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/help-health-costs", "label": "Help with health costs (Northern Ireland)", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/all?title=dental%20charges", "label": "legislation.gov.uk", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" } ], "methodology": "Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 4 of the 6 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 2 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 2 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source for each breakdown it prices, in GBP (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences for one breakdown), so a page that gives figures for several breakdowns gives one for each and N counts 5 figures, never sentences; 19 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): one row per UK nation per charge - prescription, dental band 1/2/3, sight test and optical voucher, wigs and fabric supports, the overseas-visitor rate - quoted from that nation's own authority with the date it took effect; the cross-nation comparison (England charges, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland do not, for prescriptions) is the figure, and each April's uprating is the release.", "embed": "

9.90 to 326.70 GBP

5 published figures, NHS Statutory Patient Charges, across 4 sources, read 17 October 2026

Source: privatehealthcosts.co.uk NHS Statutory Patient Charges
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