Amantadine
(asked on 1st September 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many people in England with (1) Parkinson’s, and (2) other conditions, have been prescribed Amantadine in each of the last five years.
Information is not collected centrally on the number of people prescribed medicines or the medical condition being treated. However, information is available on the number of prescription items dispensed in the community in England.
The following table shows the number of prescription items dispensed for amantadine hydrochloride in the latest available five year period.
Number of prescription items for amantadine hydrochloride written in the United Kingdom and dispensed, in the community, in England | |
Year | Items (000s) |
2009 | 95.4 |
2010 | 99.7 |
2011 | 105.5 |
2012 | 111.2 |
2013 | 113.4 |
Source: Prescription Cost Analysis provided by the Health and Social Care Information Centre