Asked by: Charlotte Leslie (Conservative - Bristol North West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many drugs currently prescribed to NHS patients in England and Wales are distributed under a European Medicines Agency licence; what those drugs are; and what therapeutic areas they treat.
Answered by David Mowat
Information on medicines granted a marketing authorisation through the European Medicines Agency’s centralised procedure is available in the Community register of medicinal products for human use, which can be found at:
http://ec.europa.eu/health/documents/community-register/html/alfregister.htm
Whether these medicines are prescribed to National Health Service patients in England is dependent on a number of factors including manufacturers’ marketing decisions, guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, national and local commissioning policies, established clinical practice and individual clinicians’ prescribing decisions.
Asked by: Charlotte Leslie (Conservative - Bristol North West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much each NHS trust has recuperated by recharging insurance companies for the costs associated with the treatment of customers who are involved in road traffic accidents in each of the last five years.
Answered by Philip Dunne
The information is not held in the format requested. Whilst the Department does hold National Health Service trust level data on the total costs recovered through the NHS Injury Cost Recovery scheme, we cannot currently extract trust level data specifically related to road traffic accidents without incurring disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Charlotte Leslie (Conservative - Bristol North West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 28 June 2016 to Question 40810, on NHS Protect, what the categories of offence were for each of the prosecutions listed.
Answered by Philip Dunne
Information on the date a prosecution commenced for each case from 2010-11 to 2015-16 and the category of offence from 2010-11 to 2012-13 could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. The date the investigation commenced for each case and the category of offence from 2013-14 onwards are shown in the attached table.
Asked by: Charlotte Leslie (Conservative - Bristol North West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 28 June 2016 to Question 40810, on NHS Protect, when each of the prosecutions listed commenced.
Answered by Philip Dunne
Information on the date a prosecution commenced for each case from 2010-11 to 2015-16 and the category of offence from 2010-11 to 2012-13 could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. The date the investigation commenced for each case and the category of offence from 2013-14 onwards are shown in the attached table.
Asked by: Charlotte Leslie (Conservative - Bristol North West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in England received NHS treatment as a result of road traffic accidents in each year since 2010.
Answered by Philip Dunne
These data are not collected centrally.
Asked by: Charlotte Leslie (Conservative - Bristol North West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department holds information on the number of people in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland with insurance who received NHS treatment following a road traffic accident in each year since 2010.
Answered by Philip Dunne
These data are not collected centrally.
Asked by: Charlotte Leslie (Conservative - Bristol North West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prescriptions of individual antidepressants were dispensed in the community in 2015.
Answered by David Mowat
This information is given in the table below:
The number of prescription items written in the United Kingdom and dispensed in the community in England in 2015, classified as antidepressant drugs in British National Formulary (BNF) section 4.3, using the classification system prior to edition 70 | |
BNF Chemical Name | Prescription items (000s) |
Agomelatine | 21.6 |
Amitriptyline Hydrochloride | 12,404.5 |
Amoxapine | -1 |
Citalopram Hydrobromide | 14,403.8 |
Citalopram Hydrochloride | 78.3 |
Clomipramine Hydrochloride | 304.8 |
Dosulepin Hydrochloride | 1,034.2 |
Doxepin | 40.4 |
Duloxetine Hydrochloride | 1,595.5 |
Escitalopram | 932.6 |
Fluoxetine Hydrochloride | 6,469.7 |
Flupentixol Hydrochloride | 153.2 |
Fluvoxamine Maleate | 27.9 |
Imipramine Hydrochloride | 167.1 |
Isocarboxazid | 1.8 |
Lofepramine Hydrochloride | 253.1 |
Mianserin Hydrochloride | 4.4 |
Mirtazapine | 6,783.9 |
Moclobemide | 20.5 |
Nefazodone Hydrochloride | 0.2 |
Nortriptyline | 574.6 |
Other Antidepressant Preps | -1 |
Oxitriptan | -1 |
Paroxetine Hydrochloride | 1,466.5 |
Phenelzine Sulfate | 17.5 |
Reboxetine | 32.0 |
Sertraline Hydrochloride | 9,447.8 |
Tranylcypromine Sulfate | 8.6 |
Trazodone Hydrochloride | 1,084.0 |
Trimipramine Maleate | 73.6 |
Tryptophan | 2.3 |
Venlafaxine | 3,617.1 |
Vortioxetine | 0.1 |
Total2 | 61,021.6 |
Source: Prescription Cost Analysis system data provided by the Health and Social Care Information Centre
1 Less than 50 prescription items dispensed.
2 Total figure may not sum due to rounding
Asked by: Charlotte Leslie (Conservative - Bristol North West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prescriptions of individual benzodiazepine drugs were dispensed in 2015.
Answered by Alistair Burt
Information is given in the tables below.
Table 1: Number of benzodiazepine prescription items written in the United Kingdom and dispensed in the community in England in 2015, as classified as hypnotics and anxiolytics in British National Formulary (BNF) Section 4.1 | |
BNF chemical name | Prescription items (000s) |
Alprazolam | - 1 |
Chlordiazepoxide Hydrochloride | 90.6 |
Diazepam | 5,324.1 |
Flurazepam Hydrochloride | - 1 |
Loprazolam Mesilate | 50.9 |
Lorazepam | 1,090.4 |
Lormetazepam | 28.1 |
Nitrazepam | 663.9 |
Oxazepam | 113.7 |
Temazepam | 1,423.5 |
Total2 | 8,785.2 |
Source: Prescription Cost Analysis (PCA) system data provided by the Health and Social Care Information Centre
1 Less than 50 prescription items dispensed.
2 Total figure may not sum due to rounding
Table 2: Number of benzodiazepine prescription items written in the United Kingdom and dispensed in the community in England in 2015, as classified as antiepileptic drugs in BNF Section 4.8 | |
BNF chemical name | Prescription items (000s) |
Clobazam | 267.5 |
Clonazepam1 | 892.7 |
Clonazepam2 | 0.1 |
Midazolam Hydrochloride | 48.6 |
Midazolam Maleate | 21.6 |
Total 3 | 1,230.5 |
Source: PCA system data provided by the Health and Social Care Information Centre
1 From BNF 4.8.1 Control of the epilepsies
2 From BNF 4.8.2 Drugs used in status epilepticus
3 Total figure may not sum due to rounding
Table 3: Number of benzodiazepine prescription items written in the United Kingdom and dispensed in the community in England in 2015, as classified as anaesthesia drugs in BNF Section 15.1.4 | |
BNF chemical name | Prescription items (000s) |
Midazolam Hydrochloride | 166.5 |
Total | 166.5 |
Source: PCA system data provided by the Health and Social Care Information Centre
Asked by: Charlotte Leslie (Conservative - Bristol North West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what mechanisms there are for hospitals to recharge insurance companies for the costs associated with the treatment of customers who are involved in road traffic accidents.
Answered by Alistair Burt
The Department already has a scheme in place for the recovery of National Health Service treatment costs for patients involved in accidents that subsequently go on to make a successful claim for personal injury compensation.
The NHS Injury Cost Recovery scheme places a legal obligation on insurers to notify the Secretary of State of all claims for personal injury compensation and provide information about whether the injured person was treated in an NHS hospital. The scheme is administered on behalf of the Secretary of State for Health by the Compensation Recovery Unit, which is part of the Department for Work and Pensions so in practice, notifications are made to them. Recovered costs are paid direct to the NHS hospital or ambulance trust that provided the treatment.
Asked by: Charlotte Leslie (Conservative - Bristol North West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were employed by NHS Protect at each Civil Service pay grade in each year since 2010.
Answered by George Freeman
NHS Protect co-ordinates anti-crime work in the National Health Service in England. This not only includes investigations and prosecutions but also managing information and intelligence and, wherever possible, ensuring crime is deterred and prevented.
2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | |
Number of NHS Protect prosecutions | 105 | 41 | 18 | 7 | 16 | 9 |
Note:
NHS Protect staff are employed on NHS Agenda for Change terms and conditions and the following table shows the number of NHS Protect staff by NHS pay scales.
Number of NHS Protect staff by grade | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 |
Band 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Band 4 | 22 | 17 | 13 | 15 | 16 | 15 |
Band 5 | 23 | 34 | 28 | 30 | 30 | 30 |
Band 6 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Band 7 | 106 | 87 | 78 | 78 | 85 | 81 |
Band 8a | 30 | 32 | 34 | 34 | 35 | 30 |
Band 8b | 13 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
Band 8c | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 3 |
Band 8d | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Band 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Associates | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Total | 217 | 190 | 173 | 178 | 186 | 174 |
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