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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Asthma: Medical Equipment (13 January 2016)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much NHS England received in charges for prescriptions of inhalers for people with asthma in each of the last three years.

Asked by:
Sir Christopher Chope (Conservative)

Answer

Information is not available on the number of people prescribed medicines or the medical condition treated. Information is provided based on inhalers used to treat respiratory conditions, as defined by British National Formulary Sections 3.1 Bronchodilators, 3.2 Corticosteroids, 3.3.1 Cromoglicate and related therapy and 3.7 Mucolytics.


Income received by NHS England from prescription items written in the United Kingdom and dispensed in England, for inhalers used to treat respiratory conditions, charged at the point of dispensing and submitted to the National Health Service Prescription Services. 1, 2

Year

Value of prescription charges (£000’s)

2012

31,732.1

2013

31,428.5

2014

33,991.6

Source: NHS Business Services Authority Information Systems

Notes:

1 Items dispensed to patients holding a pre-payment certificate are not included.

2 The data includes prescription charges paid which may then be refunded via a prescription refund form (FP57).


Answered by:
Alistair Burt (Conservative)
20 January 2016

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