Benzodiazepines
(asked on 28th June 2016) - View Source
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.
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