NHS: Drugs
(asked on 23rd January 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the total cost of drugs provided by the NHS has been in (a) Gloucestershire and (b) England in the last 10 years for which figures are available.
The estimated cost of drugs in England, 2010/11 to 2015/16 is given in the table below. A combined and consistent time series is not available prior to 2010/11.
Due to changes to the National Health Service organisational structure, the lowest level of data available from 1 April 2013 is NHS Area Teams. These were superseded from 1 April 2015 by NHS England Regions. However data for 2013/14, 2014/15 and 2015/16 have been shown at the lower NHS Area Team Level for consistency. Regional level data prior to April 2013 are not available on a consistent basis. Data have been provided for the Bath, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Area Team.
Costs exclude any discounts that may have been negotiated, and exclude payments made by pharmaceutical companies as part of the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme.
Financial Year | England | of which Bath, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Area Team |
Total Cost (£ million) | Cost (£ million) | |
2010/11 | 13,000.6 | |
2011/12 | 13,213.7 | |
2012/13 | 13,396.5 | |
2013/14 | 14,407.6 | 352.3 |
2014/15 | 15,541.0 | 381.6 |
2015/16 | 16,788.1 | 414.3 |
Source: ePACT; IMS HEALTH 2016: Hospital Pharmacy Audit Index