Antidepressants: Prescriptions
(asked on 19th July 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 antidepressants were dispensed in the community in 2015.
This information is given in the table below:
The number of prescription items written in the United Kingdom and dispensed in the community in England in 2015, classified as antidepressant drugs in British National Formulary (BNF) section 4.3, using the classification system prior to edition 70 | |
BNF Chemical Name | Prescription items (000s) |
Agomelatine | 21.6 |
Amitriptyline Hydrochloride | 12,404.5 |
Amoxapine | -1 |
Citalopram Hydrobromide | 14,403.8 |
Citalopram Hydrochloride | 78.3 |
Clomipramine Hydrochloride | 304.8 |
Dosulepin Hydrochloride | 1,034.2 |
Doxepin | 40.4 |
Duloxetine Hydrochloride | 1,595.5 |
Escitalopram | 932.6 |
Fluoxetine Hydrochloride | 6,469.7 |
Flupentixol Hydrochloride | 153.2 |
Fluvoxamine Maleate | 27.9 |
Imipramine Hydrochloride | 167.1 |
Isocarboxazid | 1.8 |
Lofepramine Hydrochloride | 253.1 |
Mianserin Hydrochloride | 4.4 |
Mirtazapine | 6,783.9 |
Moclobemide | 20.5 |
Nefazodone Hydrochloride | 0.2 |
Nortriptyline | 574.6 |
Other Antidepressant Preps | -1 |
Oxitriptan | -1 |
Paroxetine Hydrochloride | 1,466.5 |
Phenelzine Sulfate | 17.5 |
Reboxetine | 32.0 |
Sertraline Hydrochloride | 9,447.8 |
Tranylcypromine Sulfate | 8.6 |
Trazodone Hydrochloride | 1,084.0 |
Trimipramine Maleate | 73.6 |
Tryptophan | 2.3 |
Venlafaxine | 3,617.1 |
Vortioxetine | 0.1 |
Total2 | 61,021.6 |
Source: Prescription Cost Analysis 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