PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(13 January 2025)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 8 January 2025 to Question 21526 on Methylphenidate: Norfolk, how many prescriptions for methylphenidate were dispensed by Norfolk and Waveney (a) integrated care board and (b) clinical commissioning group in each year between 2019 and 2024.

Asked by:
Steff Aquarone (Liberal Democrat)

The Prescription Cost Analysis (PCA) from the NHS Business Services Authority provides the total number of prescription items of each medicine dispensed in the community in England. The following table shows the total number of National Health Service prescription items for the chemical substance methylphenidate that were dispensed in the Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board (ICB) area from January 2019 to October 2024, latest data available, regardless of where prescribed:

Total prescription items dispensed in Norfolk and Waveney ICB
2019	33,733
2020	30,723
2021	31,320
2022	31,267
2023	32,138
2024	28,249

Note: data for 2024 is from January to October.

In addition, the following table shows the total number of NHS prescription items for the chemical substance methylphenidate that were prescribed by cost centres linked to the Sub ICB Location (SICBL), or prior to 2020, the Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) area of Norfolk and Waveney, from January 2019 to October 2024:

Total prescription items prescribed in Norfolk and Waveney SICBL
2019	31,751
2020	29,665
2021	30,334
2022	30,431
2023	31,233
2024	27,086

Notes:

1. data for 2024 is from January to October; and
2. historical data has been re-presented using the latest NHS organisation structure.

The CCG relates to the prescribing organisation, so the statistics are consistent with the English prescribing datasets rather than the dispensing organisation shown in PCA.

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