Asked by: Mark Durkan (Social Democratic & Labour Party - Foyle)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has spent on licensed drugs in each of the last four years.
Answered by George Freeman
Information on National Health Service expenditure on drugs is in the table. It is not possible to determine if a drug is prescribed within its licensed indication as information on the condition for which a drug is prescribed is not available.
Year | Primary Care1 £m | Secondary Care2 £m | Total £m |
2010-11 | 8,280 | 4,257 | 12,537 |
2011-12 | 8,243 | 4,482 | 12,725 |
2012-13 | 7,887 | 5,055 | 12,942 |
2013-14 | 8,015 | 5,324 | 13,339 |
Sources:
Primary care figures are from primary care trusts’ audited summarisation schedules and Department of Health annual accounts.
Secondary care figures are from NHS trusts’ finance returns and Foundation Trust year-end accounts.
Notes:
1 Primary care figures include amounts paid to pharmacy and appliance contractors by the NHS Business Services Authority and amounts authorised for dispensing doctors and personal administration in England. The data include the cost of dressings and appliances but do not cover costs for drugs prescribed in hospital but dispensed in the community or private prescriptions.
2 Secondary care expenditure on drugs includes medical gases. Drugs prescribed in hospitals but dispensed in the community are also included.
Asked by: Mark Durkan (Social Democratic & Labour Party - Foyle)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to inform young people aged 16 and over about joining the bone marrow donor register.
Answered by Jane Ellison
NHS Blood and Transport (NHSBT) manages the British Bone Marrow Registry (BBMR), the NHS Cord Blood Bank and provides specialist services related to the provision of stem cells which can turn into blood cells for the treatment of blood cancers and is responsible for raising awareness of these issues.
NHSBT recruits stem cell donors to the BBMR exclusively from the pool of active blood donors (aged 17 years and above), however those wishing to join at age 16, can do so through Anthony Nolan.
All registered stem cell donors are in the United Kingdom's aligned register. Anthony Nolan manages this single UK bone marrow register, which is known as the 'Anthony Nolan & NHS Stem Cell Registry', and is aligned with the NHS BBMR and the Welsh Bone Marrow Donor Registry.
NHSBT has programmes in place to support education about donation and transplantation for children and young adults including Give and Let Live, a national education programme aimed at promoting awareness of bone marrow, blood, tissue, cord blood and organ donation amongst 14-16 year old pupils.
Within the UK strategy ‘Taking Organ Transplantation to 2020’ (published in July 2013 and available at www.nhsbt.nhs.uk/to2020/), the UK Government Health Departments have agreed to explore with Education Departments the possibility of incorporating donation and transplantation into schools’ curricula.
Asked by: Mark Durkan (Social Democratic & Labour Party - Foyle)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 7 May 2014, Official Report, column 230W, on abortion, whether his Department has formed a view as to when the Royal college of Gynaecologists and Obstetricians publication, The Care of Women Requesting Induced Abortion, should be updated in order to take into account new research; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Jane Ellison
An updated guideline, The Care of Women Requesting Induced Abortion, was published in 2011. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists is maintaining a watching brief on the needto review recommendations in the light of new research evidence.