Opiates: Prescriptions
(asked on 3rd May 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 2 May 2019 to Question 248592 on Opiates: Prescriptions, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of her Department centrally recording information on the prevalence of opioid prescriptions,
This question was answered on 9th May 2019
We have made no such assessment. Prescription information is taken from the Prescription Cost Analysis system, as supplied by NHS Digital, and is based on a full analysis of all prescriptions dispensed in the community. The data is not collected on a local authority basis.