PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Prescription Drugs (3 June 2019)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many prescriptions of (a) individual benzodiazepine drugs and (b) individual antidepressants were dispensed in the community in 2018.
Asked by:
Darren Jones (Labour)
Asked by:
Darren Jones (Labour)
Answer
Information on the number of prescription items from the Prescription Cost Analysis system for benzodiazepines and antidepressants written in the United Kingdom and dispensed in the community in England, for the year 2018 can be found in the attached tables.
The data available is at prescription item level by presentation. Prescriptions are prescribed either by a paper prescription form or via an Electronic Prescription Service message. Each single item written on the form is counted as a prescription item. No information is available for those prescriptions written but not dispensed.
Answered by:
Seema Kennedy (Conservative)
11 June 2019
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