PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Antibiotics (22 November 2016)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the level of antibiotics use has been in each year since 2000.
Asked by:
Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat)
Asked by:
Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat)
Answer
Public Health England (PHE) was established in 2013. Data collected by PHE since 2013 along with data collected by the Health Protection Agency from 2010-12 can be found in table 1.
Table 1: Total antibiotic consumption, expressed as Defined Daily Dose (DDD) per 1,000 inhabitants per day, England, 2010-2015
DDD per 1,000 inhabitants per day | ||||||
Setting | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
General Practice | 15.7 | 16.1 | 17.3 | 16.7 | 16.9 | 16.2 |
Other community | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.7 |
Dentist | 0.6* | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.0 |
Hospital inpatient | 2.2 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.5 | 2.4 |
Hospital outpatient | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 1.6 |
Total | 20.7 | 21.6 | 22.9 | 22.5 | 22.8 | 21.8 |
*Data only available from June 2010 rather than start of the calendar year
Answered by:
Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford (Conservative)
30 November 2016
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