Sodium Valproate: Prescriptions

(asked on 20th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information is currently held by NHS England on prescribing rates of sodium valproate to women and girls of childbearing age in each clinical commissioning group; and if he will make it his policy to routinely publish this data.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 25th October 2017

The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) holds prescribing data which includes patient level data containing National Health Service number, age and date of birth of a patient enabling the ability to report figures of sodium valproate for women and girls of childbearing age. NHSBSA provides NHS stakeholders with prescribing volumes, trend and cost analysis based on prescribing by general practitioners and other prescribers that was dispensed in the community. Data, split by clinical commissioning group, on the volumes of prescriptions and patient numbers has been previously published via the NHS England website.

https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/prescribing-for-sodium-valproate/

We are exploring how this data might be updated in the future.

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