Prescriptions: Greater London

(asked on 26th January 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prescriptions were issued for medication in each London borough in each year since 2010.


Answered by
Alistair Burt Portrait
Alistair Burt
This question was answered on 29th January 2016

Information is provided on the number of prescription items dispensed and is available by health organisations but not by local authorities.


Table 1: Five most commonly dispensed medicines, by chemical name, in England and London, based on the number of prescription items written, in the community, within England and London, and dispensed within the United Kingdom, from 2011 to November 2015 1

Year

England

Number (000’s)

London 2

Number (000’s)

2011

Simvastatin

41,133.9

Simvastatin

4,878.2


Aspirin

32,338.1

Aspirin

3,504.9


Levothyroxine Sodium

24,958.6

Amlodipine

3,057.7


Omeprazole

23,199.6

Ramipril

2,554.2


Ramipril

22,435.0

Levothyroxine Sodium

2,543.6

2012

Simvastatin

42,616.8

Simvastatin

5,032.6


Aspirin

31,696.8

Aspirin

3,456.4


Levothyroxine Sodium

26,651.4

Amlodipine

3,283.2


Omeprazole

25,695.9

Omeprazole

2,724.6


Ramipril

23,819.7

Levothyroxine Sodium

2,720.7

2013

Simvastatin

39,827.5

Simvastatin

4,578.7


Aspirin

30,818.0

Amlodipine

3,481.7


Levothyroxine Sodium

27,693.5

Aspirin

3,403.7


Omeprazole

27,218.9

Omeprazole

2,870.7


Ramipril

24,921.9

Levothyroxine Sodium

2,864.2

2014

Simvastatin

37,743.5

Simvastatin

4,266.2


Aspirin

29,762.6

Amlodipine

3,675.1


Omeprazole

28,743.0

Aspirin

3,359.6


Levothyroxine Sodium

28,731.0

Omeprazole

3,042.8


Ramipril

25,933.6

Colecalciferol

3,030.8

2015 (January–November) 1

Simvastatin

31,417.4

Simvastatin

3,528.2


Omeprazole

27,309.2

Amlodipine

3,481.8


Levothyroxine Sodium

26,992.5

Atorvastatin

3,286.4


Aspirin

25,549.4

Colecalciferol

2,945.8


Atorvastatin

24,507.8

Aspirin

2,939.5

Source: Prescribing Analysis and Cost tool (PACT) system, maintained by NHS Prescription Services

Notes:

1 Information is provided by calendar year from 2011; data for 60 months is held at any one time and figures for the whole of 2010 are unavailable. Information for 2015 contains data from January to November 2015, inclusive; information is not yet available for December 2015.

2 part (b) of the question is interpreted as a single combined figure for all London primary care trusts/clinical commissioning groups.



Table 2: Number of prescription items written, in the community, in London and dispensed within the UK, from 2011 to November 2015 1

Year

Number (000)’s

2011

111,797.2

2012

115,913.5

2013

119,035.0

2014

123,556.6

2015 (January–November) 1

114,425.4

Source: Prescribing Analysis and Cost tool (PACT) system, maintained by NHS Prescription Services

Notes:

1 Information is provided by calendar year from 2011; data for 60 months is held at any one time and figures for the whole of 2010 are unavailable. Information for 2015 contains data from January to November 2015, inclusive; information is not yet available for December 2015.


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